BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hygrocybe reidii Kühner, 1976 (Honey Waxcap)
| 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. |
| British records | 1165 |
| Distribution | Appears to follow a southern and western distribution with few records in the east of the country north of the Thames. |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Hygrocybe reidii | Slightly washed out specimens, on neutral background | 11 October 2006 | Stafford | England | 3 | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 24 September 2006 | Derby | England | 5 | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii? | Fruitbody | 24 September 2006 | Derby | England | 8 | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 21 September 2006 | Stafford | England | 4 | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 20 September 2006 | Derby | England | 6 | 2 | |
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 14 October 1997 | Berks | England | 4 | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 14 October 1997 | Berks | England | 13 | ||
| Hygrocybe reidii | Fruitbody | 13 October 1997 | Berks | England | 12 |
Suggested Literature
Hygrocybe reidii may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Hygrocybe reidii 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 reidii listed at higher taxonomic level
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Hygrocybe (waxcaps) |
Associated with Hygrocybe reidii:
Hygrocybe reidii 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 |
