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Dendrocollybia racemosa (Pers.) R.H. Petersen & Redhead, Mycol. Res. 105(2): 169 (2001)

Sclerotium lacunosum Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 95 (1794)
Agaricus racemosus Pers., Tent. disp. meth. Fung.: 15 (1797)
Mycena racemosa (Pers.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 620 (1821)
Collybia racemosa (Pers.) Quél., Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard Sér. 2 5: 342 (1873)
Tilachlidiopsis racemosa Keissl., Annln naturh. Mus. Wien 37: 215 (1924)

Habitat: Saptrotrophic. On soil, often amongst mosses, in coniferous woodland, apparently on mummified remnants of large agarics, or where these have totally decayed.

Notes: Rarely reported or collected but widespread. Easily overlooked and probably more frequent than the limited records suggest.

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 18384; Scotland: K(M) 86958; Wales: K(M) 27660

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 217
D:, in anon., 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), p. 109
D+I: A Monograph of Marasmius, Collybia and related genera in Europe : Part 2, in Antonin, V. & Noordeloos, M.E., Libri Botanici Collybia, Gymnopus, Rhodocollybia, Crinipellis, Chaetocalathus and additions to Marasmiellus 17: 256 pp. (1997), p. 20-22, pl. 4

Conservation Status: Rare (Red Data List, Ing 1992) as Collybia racemosa; Near Threatened (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006) as Collybia racemosa

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