Deconica coprophila
Cap 1.0 to 2.5, at first hemispheric, sometimes with a low umbo, becoming convex. Fringed with whitish scales when young, surface glabrous, sub viscid, colour reddish-brown to dingy yellowish-brown. Gills few, open brown, stipe very narrow brown.
Scattered or clustered on herbivore dung.
Summer and autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Alan Semper
Bradgate Park
07 October 2013
on deer dung
Melinda Bell
Bradgate Park, near covered reservoir
22 October 2024
older caps appear striate
Melinda Bell
Bradgate Park, near covered reservoir
22 October 2024
veil remnant on cap
Melinda Bell
Bradgate Park, near covered reservoir
22 October 2024
adnate gills stained by spores
Melinda Bell
Bradgate Park, near covered reservoir
22 October 2024
thick walled spores, germ pore
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Strophariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 07/10/2013 (Semper, Alan)
- Last record:
- 22/10/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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