Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Agaricales Family: Tricholomataceae
Species: Hygrocybe mucronella (Fr.) P. Karst.
Synonyms: Hygrocybe reae
Hygrophorus mucronellus
Hygrophorus reai
Common Name: Bitter Waxcap
Swedish Indicator List: Woodland Indicator Species
A grassland indicator species
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Hygrocybe mucronellaPhotographer: © David Mitchel
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Poa (4)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Acid grassland: semi-improved (4)
Calcareous grassland: semi-improved (4)
Grassland: calcareous, semi-improved, upland (4)
Woodland: broadleaved, semi-natural (4)
Scrub (3)
Woodland (3)
Built up area, domestic (2)
Calcareous grassland: unimproved (2)
Neutral grassland: semi-improved (2)
Coastland: grey dunes (1)
Marsh/marshy grassland (1)
Park lawns (1)
Sand-dune (1)
Sand-dune: dune slack (1)
Sesleria albicans-Galium sterneri grassland (1)
Woodland: mixed (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Soil (15)
Soil Grassy (6)
Litter (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
September (3)
October (25)
November (16)
December (1)