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Guepinia helvelloides (DC.) Fr., Elench. fung. (Greifswald) 2: 30 (1828)

Tremella rufa Jacq., Miscell. austriac. 1: 143 (1778)
Tremella helvelloides DC., Fl. franç. (Paris) 2: 93 (1805)
Guepinia rufa (Jacq.) Beck, Lich. Pl. Nov. Zemlya: 302 (1884)
Gyrocephalus rufus (Jacq.) Bref., Unters. Gesammtgeb. Mykol. (Liepzig) 7: 131 (1888)
Gyrocephalus helvelloides (DC.) Keissl., Beih. Botan. Centralbl. Abt. B 31: 461 (1914)
Phlogiotis helvelloides (DC.) G.W. Martin, Am. J. Bot. 23: 628 (1936)
Tremiscus helvelloides (DC.) Donk, Taxon 7: 164 (1958)

Habitat: On soil amongst grass in woodland glades, and a single collection on a spoil heap by a coal mine.

Notes: Rarely reported. British collections from widely scattered locations in England and Wales with the majority from around the English-Welsh borders. A single collection from Scotland (Stirling: Doune Ponds). Probably genuinely rare in Britain, the distinctive basidiomes making it unlikely to be overlooked.

Distribution: E: !, S: !, W: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 44761; Scotland: E00159750; Wales: K(M) 44764

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 70, pl. 31
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 111
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 325
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 137
D+I: Profiles of Fungi - 51 Tremiscus helvelloides, in Munro, I. & Watling, R., The Mycologist 7(2): 57-103 (1993), p. 86
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 1 1: 629 pp. (2000), p. 129

Conservation Status: Rare (Red Data List, Ing 1992); removed from list (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006)

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