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Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Cooke, Grevillea 12(no. 63): 70 (1884)

Agaricus laccatus Scop., Fl. carniol. Edn 2 (Vienna) 2: 448 (1772)
Agaricus farinaceus Huds., Fl. Angl. Edn 2 2: 616 (1778)
Agaricus amethysteus Bull., Herb. Fr. (Paris) 5: tab. 198 (1785)
Agaricus rosellus Batsch, Elench. fung. Cont. prima (Halle): 121 (1786)
Omphalia farinacea (Huds.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 616 (1821)
Omphalia rosella (Batsch) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 613 (1821)
Omphalia amethystea β incana (Bull.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 615 (1821)
Omphalia amethystea (Bull.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 614 (1821)
Laccaria laccata var. amethystea (Bull.) Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 11: 518 (1871)
Clitocybe laccata (Scop.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 122 (1871)
Clitocybe laccata var. pallidifolia Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. 43: 38 (1890) [1889]
Laccaria laccata var. pallidifolia (Peck) Peck, Bull. N.Y. St. Mus. 157: 92 (1912) [1911]
Laccaria amethystea (Bull.) Murrill, N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 10(1): 1 (1914)
Laccaria laccata var. anglica Singer, Bull. trimest. Soc. mycol. Fr. 83: 110 (1967)
Laccaria laccata var. affinis Singer, Bull. trimest. Soc. mycol. Fr. 83: 111 (1967)
Laccaria tetraspora var. scotica Singer, Bull. trimest. Soc. mycol. Fr. 83: 114 (1967)
Laccaria laccata var. moelleri Singer, Beih. Sydowia 7: 9 (1973)
Laccaria affinis (Singer) Bon, Docums Mycol. 13(no. 51): 49 (1983)
Laccaria affinis var. anglica (Singer) Bon, Docums Mycol. 13(no. 51): 50 (1983)
Laccaria scotica (Singer) Contu, Mycotheca veneti 1(2): 7 (1985)

Habitat: On soil in woodland, on moorland or heathland, often associated with Betula spp., but also known with many other deciduous trees. Occasionally growing amongst Sphagnum moss.

Notes: Very common and widespread.

Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: c, NI: c, ROI: c, Other: Channel Islands: !; Isle of Man: c

Vouchers: England: K(M) 89048; Scotland: K(M) 91268; Wales: K(M) 91248; Other: Isle of Man: K(M) 91242

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 52
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), as Laccaria laccata var. laccata, p. 202, pl. 231
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 130
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 147
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 187
D:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 3: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Tricholomataceae (2), (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 3: 183 pp. (1995), as Laccaria laccata var. pallidifolia, p. 97-98
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 283

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