BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers., 1797 (Shaggy Inkcap, Lawyer’s Wig)
| Notes (MWS) | The Lawyer's Wig or Shaggy Inkcap is a large toadstool growing on soil, in grassland and on rubbish dumps. It is very common on new lawns and is found throughout the British Isles. |
Sets of Photographs
These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.
| Taxon | Summary |  |
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Date | Vice-county | Country |
|---|
| Coprinus comatus | Group in weak sunshine, ring, LS, central strand | 11 | 11 | 21 Oct 2005 | Berks | England |
| Coprinus comatus | Fruitbody | 3 | 3 | 7 Oct 2001 | East Gloucestershire | England |
| Coprinus comatus | Fruitbody | 1 | 1 | 18 Oct 1978 | Surrey | England |
| Coprinus comatus | Fruitbody | 1 | 1 | 2 Oct 1971 | East Norfolk | England |
| Coprinus comatus | Fruitbody | 1 | 1 | 29 Sep 1968 | East Sussex | England |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Redhead, S.A., 2001 (Colour photograph) | Bully for Coprinus - a story of manure, minutiae and molecules |
Coprinus comatus may also be covered by literature listed under:
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 1 feeding and other relationships of Coprinus comatus (Shaggy Inkcap, Lawyer’s Wig)
