BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
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 |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Cystoderma amianthinum | Fruitbody | 6 October 1999 | Berks | England | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| Cystoderma amianthinum | Fruitbody | 30 September 1998 | Berks | England | 12 | 10 | ||
| Cystoderma amianthinum | Fruitbody | 14 October 1997 | Berks | England | 10 | |||
| Cystoderma amianthinum | Fruitbody | 13 October 1997 | Berks | England | 11 | |||
| Cystoderma amianthinum | Fruitbody | 23 October 1985 | North Wiltshire | England | 4 | 3 | ||
| Cystoderma amianthinum | Fruitbody | 23 October 1984 | North Wiltshire | England | 3 | 4 | ||
| Cystoderma amianthinum | Fruitbody | 29 September 1974 | South-west Yorkshire | England | 1 |
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:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Cystoderma amianthinum is associated with:
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fruitbody | Bryopsida - mosses | fruitbody is associated with gametophyte | 
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
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fruitbody | Polytrichum - a genus of hair-mosses (Polytrichales: Polytrichaceae) | fruitbody is associated with gametophyte |
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
Associated with Cystoderma amianthinum:
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stipe, fruitbody | stipe of fruitbody is parasitised by fruitbody | Squamanita paradoxa - Powdercap Strangler (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) |
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
Cystoderma amianthinum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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FUNGI SS. (true fungi) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools) |
Cystoderma (powdercaps) |
References
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
