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Asterophora lycoperdoides (Bull.) Ditmar, 1809 (Powdery Piggyback)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Asterophora lycoperdoides Fruitbody 24 October 2004 Berks England 8 3
Asterophora lycoperdoides Fruitbody 21 September 2002 North Hampshire England 10
Asterophora lycoperdoides Fruitbody 2 October 1999 North Hampshire England 11 3
Asterophora lycoperdoides Fruitbody 7 October 1987 Berks England 4

Suggested Literature

Asterophora lycoperdoides may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
TRICHOLOMATACEAE
(a family of toadstools)
Asterophora
(piggyback or pick-a-back toadstools)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Asterophora lycoperdoides is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Russula - brittlegill toadstools, russulas (Russulales: Russulaceae) fruitbody parasitises moribund fruitbody UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Russula - brittlegill toadstools, russulas (Russulales: Russulaceae) fruitbody parasitises decayed fruitbody UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody Russula adusta - Winecork Brittlegill (Russulales: Russulaceae) fruitbody parasitises decayed fruitbody UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody Russula adusta - Winecork Brittlegill (Russulales: Russulaceae) fruitbody parasitises moribund fruitbody UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Russula nigricans - Blackening Brittlegill, Blackening Russula (Russulales: Russulaceae) fruitbody parasitises moribund fruitbody UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
Photos fruitbody Russula nigricans - Blackening Brittlegill, Blackening Russula (Russulales: Russulaceae) fruitbody parasitises decayed fruitbody UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Associated with Asterophora lycoperdoides:

fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by gregarious, partly immersed perithecium Pyxidiophora asterophora - an ascomycete (Pyxidiophorales: Pyxidiophoraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Asterophora lycoperdoides may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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