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Camarophyllopsis foetens (W. Phillips) Arnolds, 1986 (a fanvault)

Notes (MWS) A rare to local greyish brown toadstool with strongly decurrent gills and a distinctive dungy smell. It is found in small groups in bare places in woodland and in unimproved grassland, on weakly acid to basic soils.
British records 78
1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Rare
2007 (Draft) Red Data List DD

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Camarophyllopsis foetens Fruitbodies - lain down on pale background (record shots) 15 October 2006 Stafford England 14 3
Camarophyllopsis foetens Fruitbody 8 November 1997 Berks England 8

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Long, P., 2002 Leicestershire Lawns

General Works

Henrici, A., 2007 (collection aberrantly smelling of mothballs) Notes and Records (Oct 07)

Camarophyllopsis foetens may also 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)
Camarophyllopsis
(fanvaults)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Camarophyllopsis foetens is associated with:

Photos basidiome Bryopsida - mosses basidiome is associated with Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Poaceae - grasses - formerly Graminae basidiome is associated with Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Broadleaved trees and shrubs basidiome is associated with Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Camarophyllopsis foetens:

Camarophyllopsis foetens 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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