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Lichenomphalia hudsoniana (H.S. Jenn.) Redhead, Lutzoni, Moncalvo & Vilgalys, Mycotaxon 83: 38 (2002)

Omphalina alpina sensu auct.
Endocarpon viride Ach., Lichenogr. univ.: 300 (1810)
Verrucaria laetevirens Borrer, in Hooker & Sowerby, Hooker's J. Bot. Suppl.: pl. 2658 (1830)
Endocarpon laetevirens (Borrer) Taylor, in MacKay, Fl. hibern. 2: 101 (1836)
Normandina viridis (Ach.) Nyl., Mém. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 3: 191 (1855)
Normandina laetevirens (Borrer) Nyl., Lichenogr. Scand.: 264 (1861)
Coriscium viride (Ach.) Vain., Acta Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 7(2): 189 (1890)
Hygrophorus hudsonianus H.S. Jenn., Mem. Carn. Mus. III 12: 2 (1936)
Omphalia luteolilacina J. Favre, Champ. sup. Z.A. du Parc Nat. Suisse 5: 199 (1955)
Omphalina luteolilacina (J. Favre) D.M. Hend., Notes R. bot. Gdn Edinb. 22: 595 (1958)
Omphalina hudsoniana (H.S. Jenn.) H.E. Bigelow, Mycologia 62: 15 (1970)
Phytoconis hudsoniana (H.S. Jenn.) Redhead & Kuyper, Mycotaxon 31(1): 222 (1988)
Phytoconis viridis (Ach.) Redhead & Kuyper, Mycotaxon 31(1): 222 (1988)

Description: Thallus Coriscium-type. Cap 10–20 mm diam., convex-depressed, becoming funnel-shaped, cream to buff or pale orange-yellow, finely tomentose; margin lightly crenate, weakly transparent-striate. Gills ± concolorous with cap, shortly to strongly decurrent, moderately distant, veined. Stem to 20 × 2·5–3 mm, pale lilaceous at first, soon becoming whitish or cream but retaining a pink flush at apex, finely pubescent throughout; hairs cylindrical. Hyphal pigment intercellular; clamp connections absent. Basidia 4-spored. Basidiospores 8·5–10 × 4·5–5·2 µm, ellipsoid.

Habitat: On acidic peaty soil, with the anamorphic lichen stage Coriscium viride on heathland and moorland.

Notes: Rather common in Scotland. Rarely reported elsewhere but apparently widespread.

Distribution: E: !, S: c, W: !, NI: !, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 134003; Scotland: K(M) 98700; Wales: K(M) 134004; NI: K(M) 106112

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 190, pl. 213
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 171
D:, Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 3: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Tricholomataceae (2), (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 3: 183 pp. (1995), as Phytoconis viridis, p. 91

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