Wednesday, 15 February 2012
A to Z of British Fungi
List by Scientific Name
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Scientific Name | Primary Image | Description |
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| Radulomyces molaris | Radulomyces molaris |
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Toothed, almosr exclusively occurs on oak. |
| Ramaria flaccida | Ramaria flaccida |
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A medium sized pale-brown fungus that has a branching or tufted body found growing on soil, either solitary or in groups in coniferous woodland.... |
| Ramariopsis kunzei | Ramariopsis kunzei |
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A small cream coloured fungus with repeatedly branching, coral like; found growing either solitary or in small troops on soil in grass with or... |
| Red Banded Polypore | Fomitopsis pinicola |
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A bracket fungus, broadly attached, woody, and up to 40 cm long by 25 cm wide. Brackets are more or less flat, concentrically grooved, yellowish... |
| Red Cage | Clathrus ruber |
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Fruit body egg shaped, white to greyish volva, bursting open to show a lattice, 10x6cm, orange-red with greenish-black sporebearing material on the... |
| Red Cracking Bolete | Boletus chrysenteron |
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Medium to large variable bolete, with dull brown cap which cracks showing pinkish flesh, sulphur yellow pores becoming greenish and red streaked stem. |
| Red Edge Bonnet | Mycena rubromarginata |
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| Redlead Roundhead | Stropharia aurantiaca |
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A small to medium fungus commonly found in parks and gardens growing on wood chips and sawdust. |
| Resupinatus applicatus | Resupinatus applicatus |
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| Rhacomyces philonthinus | Rhacomyces philonthinus |
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This is a member of the Laboulbeniales, a group of insect parasites that do little damage to their host. They lack mycelium and the entire thallus (... |
| Rhododendron Bud Blast | Pycnostysanus azaleae |
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| Ringed Conecap | Conocybe arrhenii |
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A small, orange-brown fungus with a distinct ring on the stem found growing in soil. |
| Robust Bracket | Phellinus robustus |
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| Root Rot | Heterobasidion annosum |
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A large, perennial brown fungus that darkens with age, it has a white margin and white pores on the underside, growing either singly or in... |
| Rooting Bolete | Boletus radicans |
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Boletus radicans is found in deciduous woodland growing either singly or in small troops. The cap is bun-shaped, a pale cream to grey colour,... |
| Rooting Poisonpie | Hebeloma radicosum |
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This fungus with a strange ecology as it has a stem that burrows into the soil and feeds on animal waste. |
| Rooting Shank | Oudemansiella radicata |
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| Rooting Shank | Xerula radicata |
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| Rosellinia aquila | Rosellinia aquila |
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A 'pyrenomycete' fungus which occurs in groups on dead wood, particularly fallen decorticated trunks and branches; it belongs to the same group as... |
| Rosey Bonnet | Mycena rosea |
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A small to medium sized whitish or pink fungus, found growing in small troops on soil amongst leaf-litter in mixed or deciduos woodland. |
| Rosy Spike | Gomphidius roseus |
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Small to medium bolete with slimy coral-red cap, greyish white, deeply decurrent gills, and a stem with a ring zone. |
| Rubinoboletus rubinus | Rubinoboletus rubinus |
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| Ruby Bolete | Boletus rubellus |
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A small to medium sized infrequent Bolete found either solitary or in small groups under deciduous trees. |
| Rufous Milkcap | Lactarius rufus |
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This is a common species, found during early Summer and Autumn, usually in large numbers on acid soil, in Pine woods and occasionally under... |
| Russet Toughshank | Collybia dryophila |
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Cap convex Becoming flattened and often wavy at margin; variable in colour from whitish or pale buff to light tan. Stem. Base swollen, flushed tan... |
| Russula firmula | Russula firmula |
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| Russula graveolens | Russula graveolens |
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A medium sized Russula with a variably coloured cap that ranges from red or reddish or pink, violet or purple, brown, grey to beige found growing... |
| Russula grisea | Russula grisea |
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Similar to Russula ionochlora and only reliably distinguished by its microscopic characters, although the cap colours are rather... |
| Russula luteotacta | Russula luteotacta |
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A medium sized Russla with a red to pink coloured cap, often with paler patches foung growing on soil in broadleaf woodland. |
| Russula mairei | Russula mairei |
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See Russula nobilia |
| Russula pseudo-olivascens | Russula pseudo-olivascens |
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| Russula solaris | Russula solaris |
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A medium sized Russula that has a pale yellow cap and gills found growing in scattered groups or solitary in broadleaf woodlands specifically... |
| Russula sororia | Russula Sororia |
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A small to medium sized Russula that is found growing in scattered groups or solitary, on soil in broadleaf woodland, specifically with Oak. |
| Russula vesca | Russula vesca |
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A medium to large Russula that has a variable cap, being violet to buff in colour, growing in scattered groups or solitary, on soil under... |