Wednesday, 15 February 2012
A to Z of British Fungi
List by Scientific Name
Common Name |
Scientific Name | Primary Image | Description |
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| Agaricus bohusii | Agaricus bohusii |
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A rare fungus in the U.K. with a large, scaly cap, usually growing solitary in woodland or pastures, favouring Ash. |
| Agaricus macrosporus | Agaricus macrosporus |
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A medium to large fungus that is edible and tasty found, usually growing in groups or rings in meadows and pastureland. |
| Agaricus silvicola | Agaricus silvicola |
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| Agaricus subfloccosus | Agaricus subfloccosus |
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Found in mixed woodland. Red staining on cutting floccose cap ring peelable downwards spores 7.5 x 4.5 . |
| Agaricus xanthoderma var lepiotoides | Agaricus xanthoderma var lepiotoides |
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| Agrocybe rivulosa | Agrocybe rivulosa |
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Added to the British list in 2004 and has since been found growing all over the country on piles of woodchips, often in large numbers. |
| Albugo candida | Albugo candida |
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A white blister-rust parasitic on a wide range of hosts in the family Brassicaceae; shown here on Shepherd's Purse (Capsella) and Hoary Mustard (... |
| Alder Bracket | Inonotus radiatus |
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A smallish reddish brown annual bracket found usually growing in tiers on the trunks of Alder and occasionally on other braodleaf trees. |
| Allopsalliota geesterani | Allopsalliota geesterani |
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Monotypic genus with affinities to Agaricus; fruitbody very fleshy, subhypogeous, staining strongly yellow and then purple to almost black. |
| Amanita inopinata | Amanita inopinata |
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There is great curiosity as to where this strange species could have originated. At present, it seems most likely to have come from New Zealand.... |
| Amanita phalloides var. alba | Amanita phalloides var. Alba |
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A white variation of the Death Cap. Equally as deadly. |
| Amanita submembranacea | Amanita submembranacea |
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Amanita submembranacea is a medium sized fungus that is strongly olivaceous, initially with a pallid margin. Marginal striations occupy... |
| Arcyria denudata | Arcyria denudata |
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Sporocarps erect... |
| Arcyria incarnata | Arcyria incarnata |
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Common on dead wood... |
| Arcyria nutans | Arcyria nutans |
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A myxomycete |
| Armillaria borealis. | Armillaria borealis |
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| Arrhenia retiruga | Arrhenia retiruga |
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Whitish-grey, cup-shaped then expanding, sessile, margin lobed. White spore print. |
| Arrhenia Spathulata | Arrhenia spathulata |
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Very small fungi found on a moss over a gravelly or gritty substrate on sunny sheltered banks. Not Common grows late Autumn to early winter. This... |
| Artist's Bracket | Ganoderma applanatum |
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More or less flat, semicirular, margin acute, often pallid, grey-brown, unber or cocoa-coloured. hard and corky glabrous, upper surface knobbly,... |
| Ascobolus carbonarius | Ascobolus carbonarius |
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| Ascobolus furfuraceus | Ascobolus furfuraceus |
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The fruit body is only a few hundred microns tall so it can be contained in the low power field of a microsocope. The fruitbody is an apothecium (... |
| Ascobolus hawaiensis | Ascobolus hawaiiensis |
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A tiny coprophilous ascomycete. Recorded on sheep and rabbit dung; recognised chiefly by the warty spores and the spore-size (smaller than the... |
| Ascocoryne cylichnium | Ascocoryne cylichnium |
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An ascomycete Distinguished from Ascocoryne sarcoides by the more obviously cup-shaped fruiting body and larger spores. |
| Aurantiporus fissilis | Aurantiporus fissilis |
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