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Cystoderma amianthinum (Scop.) Fayod, 1889 (Earthy Powdercap)

Notes (MWS) A small yellowish-cream to orange-brown toadstool with a granular-scaly ring and a powdery cap which is often veined and wrinkled. The toadstool grows in moss (especially *Polytrichum*) or grass or on soil, in poor quality lawns, rough grassland, heaths and coniferous woods. It is common and widespread.
British records 2292

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos # macrophotos # microphotos # notes Date Vice-county Country
Cystoderma amianthinum Fruitbody 21 11 10 30 Sep 1998 Berks England
Cystoderma amianthinum Fruitbody 11 1 3 7 6 Oct 1999 Berks England
Cystoderma amianthinum Fruitbody 11 11 13 Oct 1997 Berks England
Cystoderma amianthinum Fruitbody 10 10 14 Oct 1997 Berks England
Cystoderma amianthinum Fruitbody 7 4 3 23 Oct 1985 North Wiltshire England
Cystoderma amianthinum Fruitbody 7 3 4 23 Oct 1984 North Wiltshire England
Cystoderma amianthinum Fruitbody 1 1 29 Sep 1974 South-west Yorkshire England

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Savage, D., 2005 (Colour photograph) Fungi of the Far North: Part 1

Cystoderma amianthinum may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
TRICHOLOMATACEAE
(a family of toadstools)
Cystoderma
(powdercaps)
Macromycetes (via Agaricales) Fungi sl.

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3 feeding and other relationships of Cystoderma amianthinum (Earthy Powdercap)

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