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Rickenella fibula (Bull.) Raithelh., Metrodiana 4: 67 (1973)

Agaricus fibula Bull., Herb. Fr. (Paris) 4: tab. 186 (1784) [1783-84]
Agaricus nivalis Vahl, Fl. Danic. 6: tab. 1072 (1792)
Micromphale fibula (Bull.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 623 (1821)
Omphalia fibula (Bull.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 106 (1871)
Omphalina fibula (Bull.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 46 (1886)
Omphalia fibula var. nivalis (Vahl) Rea, Brit. basidiomyc. (Cambridge): 433 (1922)
Mycena fibula (Bull.) Kühner, Encyclop. Mycol. Genre Mycena: 607 (1938)
Hemimycena fibula (Bull.) Singer, Annls mycol. 41: 123 (1943)
Marasmiellus fibula (Bull.) Singer, Sydowia 2: 32 (1948)

Habitat: On soil, always associated with mosses, in woodland, unimproved grassland, or heathland.

Notes: Very common and widespread.

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 31521; Scotland: K(M) 87789; Wales: K(M) 87772; Other: Channel Islands: K(M) 120983

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Mycena fibula, p. 75
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 316, pl. 401
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 174
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 129
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 183
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), p. 158
I:, in Sowerby, J., Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms Vol.1 1: 50 pp. [pl. 1-120] (1796), as Agaricus fibula, pl. 45
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 509

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