BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Paxillus involutus (Batsch) Pers., 1801 (Brown Rollrim, Poison Pax)
| Notes (MWS) | The Brown Roll-rim is a very common toadstool throughout the British Isles. It is found in mixed and broad-leaved woodland, particularly with *Betula* and *Quercus*. |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Paxillus involutus | Fruitbody | 19 October 1975 | North Hampshire | England | 2 |
| Paxillus involutus | Fruitbody | 18 August 1971 | West Sussex | England | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Henrici, A., 2005 (Warning about the similar P. ammoniavirescens of which the cap goes fleetingly green with dilute ammonia.) | Notes and Records (Oct 2004) |
Paxillus involutus may also be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Paxillus involutus is associated with:
Associated with Paxillus involutus:
| fruitbody (old) | old fruitbody is decayed by effuse colony of Amblyosporium anamorph | Amblyosporium spongiosum - an anamorphic fungus | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 | ||
| fruitbody | fruitbody is parasitised by compact colony of Penicillium anamorph | Penicillium brevicompactum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Eurotiales: Trichocomaceae) | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 | ||
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fruitbody | fruitbody is parasitised by Verticillium anamorph | Hypomyces chrysospermus - Bolete Mould (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) | 
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Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 |
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fruitbody | fruitbody is parasitised by chlamydospore of Sepedonium anamorph | Hypomyces chrysospermus - Bolete Mould (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) |
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Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 |
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fruitbody | fruitbody is parasitised by perithecium | Hypomyces chrysospermus - Bolete Mould (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) |
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Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 |
Paxillus involutus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
References
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 | Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook |
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
