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Hygrocybe coccinea (Schaeff.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 112 (1871)

Agaricus coccineus Schaeff., Fung. bavar. palat. nasc. (Ratisbonae) 1: 70 (1762)
Hygrophorus coccineus (Schaeff.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Upsaliae): 330 (1838) [1836-1838]
Hygrocybe coccinea var. umbonata Herink, Sb. severočesk. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1: 77 (1958)

Habitat: On soil in improved and unimproved grassland, on heathland, lawns, pasture, meadows, coastal turf, old cemeteries and rarely in grassy glades in woodland.

Notes: Common and widespread.

Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: c, NI: c, ROI: c, Other: Channel Islands: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 59819; Scotland: K(M) 58595; Wales: K(M) 62720; NI: K(M) 82892; Other: Channel Islands: K(M) 61122

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 62-63
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 104, pl. 83
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 109
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 161
D:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Pleurotaceae, Pluteaceae, and Tricholomataceae 1, (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 2: 137 pp. (1990), p. 91-92
D+I:, in Boertmann, D., Fungi of Northern Europe: The genus Hygrocybe 1: 184 pp. (1995), p. 116-117
D+I:, in Candusso, M., Fungi Europaei 6: Hygrophorus s.l. 6: 784 pp. (1997), as Hygrocybe coccinea var. coccinea, p. 491-500, pl. p.745
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 59

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