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Myriostoma coliforme (Dicks.) Corda, Anleit. Stud. Mycol.: LXXXI (1842) Lycoperdon coliforme Dicks., Bot. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 24 (1785)
Geastrum coliforme (Dicks.) Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 1: 131 (1801)
Myriostoma anglicum Desv., J. Bot., Paris 2: 104 (1809)
Polystoma coliforme (Dicks.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 586 (1821)
Habitat: On soil, often amongst Urtica dioica, on roadside banks and in hedgerows.
Notes: Rare in the nineteenth century and no known British collections were made during the period from 1880 (Norfolk: Hillington) until 2006 when it was found in East Suffolk and then at a second site in this vice county in 2010. Extant sites are also known in .
Distribution: E: !, Other: Channel Islands: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 81165 (very old record); Other: Channel Islands: K(M) 37233
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 252, pl. ( photograph of a very old specimen )
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 345
D+I:, in Pegler, D.N., Læssøe, T., & Spooner, B.M, British Puffballs, Earthstars and Stinkhorns: an account of the Gasteroid Fungi: 1-255 (1995), p. 112-113, pl. Figs 84/85
Conservation Status: Extinct (Red Data List, Ing 1992); Critically Endangered / B (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006); BAP species
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