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Pseudohygrocybe (a group of waxcaps)

Further Information

Notes (MWS) Characterised by subregular hymenophoral trama with rather short inflated cells rarely more than 200microns long.

The following groups belong here:

Sombre coloured waxcaps without decurrent gills.
Very viscid species with both stipe and cap so sticky as to be difficult to pick up.
Red-orange species with yellow or crenate margin or scaly caps.
All brightly coloured species with subdecurrent gills.

But other species are less distinctive.
Boertmann, D., 1995

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #notes #refs
Section (Bot.) Coccineae Fayod (a group of waxcaps) 15          
Subsection (Bot.) Coccineae (ss.) (Bataille) Singer (a group of waxcaps) 7 83 78 17 10 5
Species Hygrocybe mucronella (Fr.) P. Karst., 1879 (Bitter Waxcap)   13 24 13 5  
Subsection (Bot.) Siccae Boertm, 1995 (a group of waxcaps) 4 55 29 14 3 3
Subsection (Bot.) Squamulosae (Bataille) Singer (a group of waxcaps) 3 44 38   17 1
Section (Bot.) Glutinosae Kuhner (a group of waxcaps) 5          
Species Hygrocybe irrigata (Pers.) Bon, 1976 (Slimy Waxcap)   10 9   3  
Species Hygrocybe laeta (Pers.) P. Kumm., 1871 (Heath Waxcap)   7 12   4  
Species Hygrocybe psittacina (Schaeff.) P. Kumm., 1871 (Parrot Waxcap) 2 22 12   10 4
Species Hygrocybe vitellina (Fr.) P. Karst., 1879 (a waxcap)   6     5  
Section (Bot.) Neohygrocybe Herink (a group of waxcaps) 4          
Species Hygrocybe fornicata (Fr.) Singer, 1951 (Earthy Waxcap) 2 8   2   1
Species Hygrocybe ingrata J.L. Jensen & F.H. Møller, 1945 (a waxcap)   16        
Species Hygrocybe ovina (Bull.) Kühner, 1926 (Blushing Waxcap)   2        

Suggested Literature

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3 general literature references to Pseudohygrocybe (a group of waxcaps)

Pseudohygrocybe may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
Hygrocybe
(waxcaps)
Gasteromycetes (via Hygrophoraceae) Macromycetes (via Agaricales) Fungi sl.

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 39 feeding and other relationships of Pseudohygrocybe (a group of waxcaps)

References

Boertmann, D., 1995 The Genus Hygrocybe
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