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Hygrocybe flavipes (Britzelm.) Arnolds, 1989 (Yellow-foot Waxcap)

Notes (MWS) An uncommon waxcap with grey cap, grey decurrent gills and a whitish stipe which is yellow at the base when young. It is found, usually in small groups, in unfertilised grasslands and old lawns
British records 289

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Hygrocybe flavipes Fruitbody - lain down on pale background (record shots) 14 October 2006 Stafford England 9 2
Hygrocybe flavipes Fruitbody 3 October 1998 Oxon England 9

Suggested Literature

Hygrocybe flavipes 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)
Hygrocybe
(waxcaps)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Hygrocybe flavipes is associated with:

Photos 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 acidic soil in unimproved grassland]

There may be more taxa associated with Hygrocybe flavipes listed at higher taxonomic level

Hygrocybe
(waxcaps)

Associated with Hygrocybe flavipes:

Hygrocybe flavipes may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

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