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Coprinopsis echinospora (Buller) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo, in Redhead, Vilgalys, Moncalvo, Johnson & Hopple, Taxon 50(1): 227 (2001)

Coprinus echinosporus Buller, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 6(4): 363 (1920) [1919]

Habitat: On wood (decayed twigs or sticks) and one record from a decayed carpet, discarded in woodland.

Notes: Rarely reported or collected but apparently widespread and easily distinguishable by the warted spores and small basidiomes resembling those of C. lagopus.

Distribution: E: !, S: !, W: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 70900

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. 232, pl. 275
D:, in Henderson, D.M., Orton, P.D., & Watling, R., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 2 Coprinaceae: Coprinus 2: 148 pp. (1979), p. 35

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