Petticoat Mottlegill - Panaeolus papilionaceus
Cap pale-brown or greyish-brown, drying to a pale grey; intiially conical and becoming bell-shaped; smooth. The mottled gills have a white edge. The English name comes from the fragments of the veil left hanging from the rim of the cap.
other Mottlegills
Photograph top-down, in side view and underneath to show gills; note habitat and substrate.
On herbivore dung in grassland
Peaking in autumn.
Fairly frequent and widespread in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Annie Smith
Charnwood Lodge NR
02 November 2017
Margaret McLoughlin
Charnwood Lodge NNR
14 November 2024
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge
11 October 2023
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge NR
02 October 2005
David Robinson
Charnwood Lodge NNR
10 November 2022
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Galeropsidaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 28
- First record:
- 02/10/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 14/11/2024 (McLoughlin, Margaret)
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Melinda Bell
Calke,Southwood
13 September 2022
Steve Mathers
Beacon Hill CP
04 October 2016
Peter Smith
Thringstone
29 September 2012
