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Clitocybe metachroa (Fr.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 120 (1871)

Agaricus dicolor Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 462 (1801)
Agaricus metachrous Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 172 (1821)
Clitocybe dicolor (Pers.) Murrill, Mycologia 7: 260 (1915)
Clitocybe decembris Singer, Sydowia 15: 48 (1962) [1961]

Habitat: On soil and decayed leaf or needle litter in deciduous or conifer woodland.

Notes: Occasional but widespread, often locally abundant. Perhaps better known as C. dicolor.

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 54959; Scotland: K(M) 8003; NI: K(M) 83098

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Clitocybe dicolor, p. 51
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 162, pl. 169
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 113
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 179
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), as Clitocybe decembris, p. 179
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 Clitocybe metachroa var. metachroa, p. 60
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 178

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