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Hygrophorus russula (Schaeff.) Quél., Publications Mich. geol. biol. Surv. Biol. Ser. 5 26: 185 (1918)

Agaricus russula Schaeff., Fung. bavar. palat. nasc. (Ratisbonae) 4: tab. 58 (1774)
Gymnopus russulus (Schaeff.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 607 (1821)
Tricholoma russula (Schaeff.) Gillet, Hyménomycètes (Alençon): 91 (1874) [1878]

Habitat: On soil, often amongst grass, in deciduous woodland.

Notes: Collected and illustrated from Kew Gardens in 1886 [see Cooke 1116 (926) Vol. 8 (1889)] and there is a drawing by Rea in 1903 of material collected near Worcester (Crews Hill Wood). Unreported since then and no voucher material exists. A distinctive, large and conspicuous fungus unlikely to be overlooked and now regarded as extinct in Britain.

Vouchers:

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 134, pl. 129
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 88
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 117
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 167
D:, 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), p. 121-122
D+I:, in Candusso, M., Fungi Europaei 6: Hygrophorus s.l. 6: 784 pp. (1997), p. 207-211, pl. p.706
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 92

Conservation Status: Extinct 1903 (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006)

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