BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hygrocybe ceracea (Wulfen) P. Kumm., 1871 (Butter Waxcap)
| Notes (MWS) | A small yellow waxcap with a greasy cap, adnate to decurrent gills and a dry stem. Microscopically it is characterised by short cells in the gills trama and narrow, usually constricted spores. The toadstool is common and widespread occurring in troops, sometimes clustered, in grassland, unfertilised lawns, in fixed dunes and on bare soil or among mosses in rich deciduous woodland or scrub. The yellow waxcaps have been much confused in the past and old records should be treated with caution. |
| British records | 1374 |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody - lain down on pale background (record shots) | 14 October 2006 | Stafford | England | 7 | ||
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody - lain down on pale background (record shots) | 14 October 2006 | Stafford | England | 6 | ||
| Hygrocybe ceracea? | Fruitbody - lain down on pale background (record shots) | 14 October 2006 | Stafford | England | 5 | ||
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody | 11 October 2006 | Stafford | England | 3 | ||
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody | 11 October 2006 | Stafford | England | 7 | 3 | |
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody | 21 September 2006 | Stafford | England | 4 | ||
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody | 2 October 2004 | West Cornwall | England | 3 | ||
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody | 3 November 1998 | Berks | England | 11 | 2 | |
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody | 8 October 1998 | Berks | England | 17 | ||
| Hygrocybe ceracea | Fruitbody | 13 October 1997 | Berks | England | 6 |
Suggested Literature
Hygrocybe ceracea may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Hygrocybe ceracea 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 acidic or basic soil in unimproved grassland] |
There may be more taxa associated with Hygrocybe ceracea listed at higher taxonomic level
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Hygrocybe (waxcaps) |
Associated with Hygrocybe ceracea:
Hygrocybe ceracea 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 |
