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Craterellus cornucopioides (L.) Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 2: 5 (1825)

Peziza cornucopioides L., Sp. pl. 2: 1181 (1753)
Merulius cornucopioides (L.) Pers., Bot. arr. Brit. pl. Edn 2 (London) 3: 281 (1792)
Merulius purpureus With., Bot. arr. Brit. pl. Edn 2 (London) 3: 280 (1792)
Cantharellus cornucopioides (L.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 321 (1821)

Habitat: On soil in deciduous woodland (especially on acidic soil in old beechwoods) often amongst mosses such as Leucobryum glaucum or Polytrichum spp.

Notes: Occasional but widespread.

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 31628; Scotland: K(M) 33804; Wales: K(M) 33814; NI: K(M) 82967

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Pegler, D.N., Roberts, P.J. & Spooner, B.M., British Chanterelles and Tooth Fungi: an account of the British Cantharelloid and stipitate Hydnoid Fungi, (Ed.: Pegler D.N., Roberts P.J., and Spooner B.M.): 114 pp. (1997), p. 16-17
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 374, pl. 487
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 263

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