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Clitocybe alexandri (Gillet) Gillet, Hyménomyc. Eur. (Paris): 28 (1884) Paxillus alexandri Gillet, Bull. Soc. linn. Normandie sér. 2 7: 157 (1873)
Lepista alexandri (Gillet) Gillet, Hyménomycètes (Alençon): 196 (1876) [1878]
Habitat: On soil in mixed deciduous woodland, usually associated with Quercus spp.
Notes: Collections from Herefordshire in 1892, West Suffolk in 1951 and Cambridgeshire in 1960, but not reported since. Reported from Shropshire in the late nineteenth century but lacking details or voucher material. A large species, unlikely to be overlooked and apparently genuinely rare.
Distribution: E: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 95475
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 109-110
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 137
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 175
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. 44
Conservation Status: Endangered (Red Data List, Ing 1992); Critically Endangered / B (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006)
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