BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hygrocybe nitrata (Pers.) Wünsche, 1877 (Nitrous Waxcap)
| Notes (MWS) | A medium-sized waxcap with dark greyish-brown cap contrasting with pale gills and stipe, and a distinctly nitrous smell. It is an uncommon species of unimproved grassland and fixed dunes. |
| British records | 309 |
Suggested Literature
Hygrocybe nitrata may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Hygrocybe nitrata 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 nitrata listed at higher taxonomic level
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Hygrocybe (waxcaps) |
Associated with Hygrocybe nitrata:
Hygrocybe nitrata 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 |
