BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hygrocybe reidii Kühner, 1976 (Honey Waxcap)
Further Information
| Notes (MWS) | A small to medium orange waxcap with subdecurrent gills and a characteristic smell of honey or Indian Balsam. It grows in troops in unfertilised lawns and grassland, and fixed dunes as well as frondose woodland and scrub. | Boertmann, D., 1995 |
| British records | 1165 | Cooper, J. & Kirk, P.M. |
| Distribution | Appears to follow a southern and western distribution with few records in the east of the country north of the Thames. | Cooper, J. & Kirk, P.M. |
Sets of Photographs
These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.
| Taxon | Summary |  |
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Date | Vice-county | Country |
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| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 13 | 13 | 14 Oct 1997 | Berks | England | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 12 | 12 | 13 Oct 1997 | Berks | England | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii? | Fruitbody | 8 | 8 | 24 Sep 2006 | Derby | England | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 8 | 6 | 2 | 20 Sep 2006 | Derby | England | |
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 5 | 5 | 24 Sep 2006 | Derby | England | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 4 | 4 | 21 Sep 2006 | Stafford | England | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 4 | 4 | 14 Oct 1997 | Berks | England | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Slightly washed out specimens, on neutral background | 3 | 3 | 11 Oct 2006 | Stafford | England |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Kibby, G. & Ainsworth, M., 2008 (Colour photograph) | A tribute to Derek Reid - British fungi named after him |
Hygrocybe reidii may also be covered by literature listed under:
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 1 feeding and other relationships of Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap)
References
| FRDBI Hosts: http://www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/assoc.asp | FRDBI Hosts |
| Boertmann, D., 1995 | The Genus Hygrocybe |
