Hygrocybe punicea

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Hygrocybe punicea
Hygrocybe punicea, England
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Hygrocybe
Species:
H. punicea
Binomial name
Hygrocybe punicea
(Fr.) P. Kumm. (1871)
Synonyms
  • Agaricus puniceus Fr. (1821)
  • Hygrophorus puniceus (Fr.) Fr. (1838)
  • Godfrinia punicea (Fr.) Herink (1958)
  • Pseudohygrocybe punicea (Fr.) Kovalenko (1988)

Hygrocybe punicea is a

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1] Records of H. punicea from North America (where it is called scarlet waxy cap and occurs in woodland),[3] East Asia, and Australia require further research to see if they represent the same species.[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first

mycologist Elias Magnus Fries as Agaricus puniceus, the Latin "puniceus" meaning "blood red". German mycologist Paul Kummer
transferred it to the genus Hygrocybe in 1871.

Recent

Description

inamyloid, ellipsoid, measuring about 8.5 to 10 by 4.5 to 5.5 μm.[5]

Similar species

The European Hygrocybe splendidissima (Spendid Waxcap) can be almost as large, but is scarlet, has a dry cap and non-fibrillose stipe, and has a distinct honey smell when rubbed or when drying. The north temperate Hygrocybe coccinea (Scarlet Waxcap) is also scarlet, but normally much smaller than H. punicea and has a non-fibrillose stipe and a cap that is finely nodulose under a lens.[5]

American Scarlet Waxy Cap, Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, California

Distribution and habitat

The Crimson Waxcap is widespread but generally rare throughout Europe.[1] Like most other European waxcaps, it occurs in old, agriculturally unimproved, short-sward grassland (pastures and lawns).

Recent research suggests waxcaps are neither

saprotrophic but may be associated with mosses.[6]

Conservation

Hygrocybe punicea is typical of

red lists of threatened fungi in several European countries, including Bulgaria,[7] Croatia,[7] Czech Republic,[7] Denmark,[8] Estonia,[7] Germany,[9] and Sweden.[7]

Hygrocybe punicea
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is conical or umbonate
Hymenium is adnexed or free
Stipe is bare
Spore print is white
Edibility is not recommended

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