Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

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Leucocoprinus cretaceus (Bull.) Locq., Bull. mens. Soc. linn. Soc. Bot. Lyon 14: 93 (1945)

Agaricus cretaceus Bull., Herb. Fr. (Paris) 8: tab. 374 (1788)
Coprinus cepistipes β cretaceus (Bull.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 633 (1821)
Lepiota cretata Locq., in Haller, Mitteilungen der Aargauischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 23: 82 (1950)
Leucoagaricus cretaceus (Bull.) M.M. Moser, Kl. Krypt.-Fl. Edn 1 (Stuttgart): 115 (1953)
Leucocoprinus cretatus Locq. ex Lanzoni, Göteborgs Kungl. Vetensk. Samhälles Handl. Ser. B, Math. Naturvensk. Skr.: 31 (1986)

Habitat: On soil in cold frames and greenhouses, and occasionally on manure heaps outside.

Notes: In similar habitat to Leucocoprinus cepistipes, and British records of these taxa appear much confused.

Distribution: E: !, W: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 101470

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 224
D+I:, in Candusso, M. & Lanzoni, G., Fungi Europaei 4: Lepiota s.l. 4: 743 pp. (1990), p. 476-480, pl. 60
D+I:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 5: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands, (Ed.: M.E. Noordeloos, T.W. Kuyper & E.C. Vellinga) 5: 169 pp. (2001), p. 78-79

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