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Psathyrella cotonea (Quél.) Konrad & Maubl., Encyclop. Mycol. Les Agaricales 14(1): 126 (1948) Hypholoma lacrymabundum sensu Rea (1922)
Stropharia cotonea Quél., Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 23: 328 (1877) [1876]
Agaricus hypoxanthus W. Phillips & Plowr., Grevillea 13(no. 66): 48 (1884)
Hypholoma hypoxanthum (W. Phillips & Plowr.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 1037 (1887)
Agaricus storea var. caespitosus Cooke, Handb. Brit. Fungi 2nd Edn: 204 (1887)
Agaricus pseudostorea W.G. Sm., J. Bot. Lond. 41: 386 (1903)
Hypholoma pseudostorea (W.G. Sm.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 17: 89 (1905)
Hypholoma cotoneum (Quél.) Lange, Dansk bot. Ark. 4(no. 4): 41 (1923)
Hypholoma storea var. caespitosum (Cooke) Killerm., Denkschr. Regensb. bot. Ges. 20: 64 (1936)
Habitat: On decayed wood, often large stumps, of deciduous trees in woodland, often on acidic soil. Sometimes appearing as if terrestrial but then on buried wood. Associated with Betula, Castanea, Fagus, Ilex and Quercus spp.
Notes: Known from England (Cumberland, East & West Kent, East Norfolk, East & West Sussex, Hertfordshire, North Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, South Hampshire, Surrey, Westmorland and Yorkshire) and Wales (Breconshire). Reported from Scotland. A distinctive species, growing in large clumps, with densely scaly-fibrillar pileus and bright yellow mycelium at the stipe bases, difficult to overlook and probably genuinely rare.
Distribution: E: !, S: ?, W: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 27565; Wales: K(M) 136437
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Agarics, 2nd part: Entolomataceae, Pluteaceae, Amanitaceae, Agaricaceae, Coprinaceae, Bolbitiaceae 4: 368 pp. (1995), p. 266, pl. 327
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 238
D+I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 266, pl. (pileus rather dark)
D+I: The Dutch, French and British species of Psathyrella, in Kits van Waveren, E., Persoonia Supplement 2: 300 pp. (1985), p. 127-130
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