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Myxomphalia maura (Fr.) Hora, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 43(2): 453 (1960)

Agaricus maurus Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 168 (1821)
Omphalia maura (Fr.) Gillet, Hyménomycètes (Alençon): 290 (1876) [1878]
Omphalina maura (Fr.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 42 (1886)
Fayodia maura (Fr.) Singer, Annls mycol. 34: 331 (1936)
Mycena maura (Fr.) Kühner, Encyclop. Mycol. Genre Mycena: 535 (1938)

Habitat: On soil, or in needle litter, especially on burnt areas and old fire sites in conifer woodland or on heathland.

Notes: Occasional in England, rare or unreported elsewhere. An albino form exists, as reported by Hora in TBMS 42: 12 (1959).

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 55962; Wales: K(M) 75593

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 68-69
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 298, pl. 374
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 121
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), as Fayodia maura, p. 121
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 131
D:, in Watling, R. & Turnbull. E., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 8 Cantharellaceae, Gomphaceae and Amyloid Spored and Xeruloid Members of Tricholomataceae (excl. Mycena) 8: 189 pp. (1998), p. 97-98
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. 156
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 473

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