[mollisia]

Hallo,

first of all I have to congratulate you to the idea of this A-Z which is a useful reference in my eyes. It would be surely be more and more valuable, the more species are into it, including description, so that one has a direct possibility for comparism. I suppose it is only ment for species found and pictured in Great Britain, and not for species depicted elsewhere even when known to occure in GB?

Three things I have found which seem to be worth correcting or discussing:

Paxillus atrotomentosus:
Tapinella atrotomentosus is also existing under the name Paxillus atrotomentosus. I think the genus Tapinella is accepted widely and I would suggest to bring it together under this name.

Tapesia fusca:
Mollisia and Tapesia are surely synonyms, as the type species M. cinerea and T. fusca are congeneric. This is accepted almost unanimousely nowadays. As Mollisia is a conserved name over Tapesia, it should may be better read Mollisia fusca.
Besides that, the picture clearly is not M. fusca, which always is seated on a blackish, +/- clearly developped subiculum. Also the subiculum is not a generic character and not even a species character in many species (e.g. lividofusca), I never came across a fusca without subiculum and I have examined more then hundred collections. Also the color of fusca is a more bluish grey. But this can be due to foto colour.

Psathyrella artemisiae:
I think this pictures is perhaps P. hirta. The veil seems to be too scaly and too copiouse for artemisiae, which has a more web-like veil. Also it looks like as if it is growing on dung, which I have never observed with P. artemisiae.

best regards,
Andreas