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Cystolepiota bucknallii (Berk. & Broome) Singer & Clémençon, Nova Hedwigia 23: 238 (1972)

Lepiota seminuda var. lilacina Quél., Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 23: 325 (1877) [1876]
Agaricus bucknallii Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. Ser. 5 [Notices of British Fungi No. 1836] 7: 124 (1881)
Lepiota bucknallii (Berk. & Broome) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 50 (1887)
Lepiota lilacina (Quél.) Boud., in Saccardo, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 15: 189 (1900)
Cystoderma bucknallii (Berk. & Broome) Singer, Schweiz. Z. Pilzk. 17: 53 (1939)

Habitat: On soil, usually calcareous loam, in mixed deciduous woodland or scrub often with Fagus, Corylus and Fraxinus. Rarely with conifers in plantations, or with Urtica dioica in nettlebeds.

Notes: Most often collected in southern and south-eastern England, but known from Northumberland southwards. Less often reported elsewhere but apparently widespread.

Distribution: E: o, W: !, NI: !, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 24584; Wales: K(M) 27729; NI: K(M) 83150

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Agarics, 2nd part: Entolomataceae, Pluteaceae, Amanitaceae, Agaricaceae, Coprinaceae, Bolbitiaceae 4: 368 pp. (1995), p. 188, pl. 209
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Lepiota bucknallii, p. 30
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 216
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 283
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 241, pl. [unusually pallid !]
D+I:, in Candusso, M. & Lanzoni, G., Fungi Europaei 4: Lepiota s.l. 4: 743 pp. (1990), p. 108-110, pl. 6b
D+I:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 5: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands, (Ed.: M.E. Noordeloos, T.W. Kuyper & E.C. Vellinga) 5: 169 pp. (2001), p. 158-159

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