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Hygrocybe cantharellus (Schwein.) Murrill, Mycologia 3: 196 (1911)

Hygrophorus cantharellus (Schwein.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Uppsala): 329 (1838) [1836-1838]
Hygrophorus turundus var. lepidus Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 12 (1897)
Hygrocybe lepida Arnolds, Persoonia 13(2): 139 (1986)

Habitat: On soil, amongst grass or mosses, in unimproved grassland, and occasionally on bare soil under trees such as Alnus and Betula spp.

Notes: Occasional but widespread and may be locally abundant.

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 17721; Scotland: K(M) 94704; Wales: K(M) 28057; ROI: K(M) 61116

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 63
I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), as Hygrocybe lepida, p. 108, pl. 90
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), as Hygrocybe lepida, p. 83
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), as Hygrocybe lepida, p. 111
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), as Hygrocybe lepida, p. 163
D+I:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Pleurotaceae, Pluteaceae, and Tricholomataceae 1, (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 2: 137 pp. (1990), as Hygrocybe lepida, p. 98
D+I:, in Boertmann, D., Fungi of Northern Europe: The genus Hygrocybe 1: 184 pp. (1995), p. 110-111
D+I:, in Candusso, M., Fungi Europaei 6: Hygrophorus s.l. 6: 784 pp. (1997), p. 552-556, pl. p.754
D:, in Candusso, M., Fungi Europaei 6: Hygrophorus s.l. 6: 784 pp. (1997), as Hygrocybe lepida, p. 556
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 57

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