Hygrocybe punicea
Hygrocybe punicea | |
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Hygrocybe punicea, England | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Hygrophoraceae |
Genus: | Hygrocybe |
Species: | H. punicea
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Binomial name | |
Hygrocybe punicea | |
Synonyms | |
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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
sensu stricto.[4]
Description
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]
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 |
See also
References
- ^ .
- ^ Holden L. (July 2014). "English names for fungi 2014". British Mycological Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
- ISBN 0-89815-169-4.
- S2CID 220615978.
- ^ ISBN 978-87-983581-7-6.
- S2CID 318326.
- ^ a b c d e "National red Lists". Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "Den danske rødliste: Hygrocybe punicea". Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "Red List: Hygrocybe punicea". Rote Liste Zentrum. Retrieved 2022-05-02.