BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hygrocybe fornicata (Fr.) Singer, 1951 (Earthy Waxcap)
| Notes (MWS) | An uncommon, dull-coloured waxcap, it has a whitish, greyish or greyish brown cap, white adnate or emarginate gills and a white stipe. The edges sometimes turn slowly reddish when bruised. It grows in clusters or small groups in unimproved grassland and fixed dunes as well as frondose woodland on rich soils. |
| British records | 424 |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Hygrocybe fornicata | Pale ("Hygrocybe clivalis") form: field and microscope photos | 1 November 2006 | Derby | England | 8 | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Hygrocybe fornicata may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Hygrocybe fornicata is associated with:
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fruitbody | Poaceae - grasses - formerly Graminae | fruitbody is associated with live | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on soil in unimproved grassland] |
There may be more taxa associated with Hygrocybe fornicata listed at higher taxonomic level
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Hygrocybe (waxcaps) |
Associated with Hygrocybe fornicata:
Hygrocybe fornicata may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools) |
References
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
