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Mealy meadowcap (Porpoloma metapodium)     ©Per Fadnes

I addition to waxcaps, pinkgills and earthtongues, a number of other fungal groups grow in grasslands. Some species have small demands to soil and geology and some prefer well-fertilized areas. Some grow directly on manure from animals. These groups are not a part of this work (website). Other genera are more demanding and have the same requirements of soil conditions as the other genera treated here.

Pseudotricholoma
These are large and fleshy fungi and have similarities to the genus Tricholoma. Three species are described in this genus (Vesterholt), but only one species is currently found in Norway.Pseudotricholoma metapodium is shown in the picture above.

Dermoloma

The genus Dermoloma have some similarities with Porpoloma, but are usually somewhat smaller and not so fleshy.
They also have some similaririties with the genus Tricholoma. Three species are described in this genus and all are found in Norvay (Vesterholt 2012).

Camarophyllopsis and Hodophilus
These two  genea belongs systematic to the family Clavariaceae but can be confused with waxcaps (Hygrocybe s.l.).

Fungi in these two genera may be confused with waxcaps (Hygrocybe s.l.). and was earlier placed in the same genus; Camarophyllopsis. They are relatively small and include several species where many are known from Norway. They are mostly rare and often grow in unfertilized grasslands together with many other seldom and redlisted species.

Lamelloclavaria
This genus also belongs systematically to Clavariaceae, but are more similar with waxcaps (Hygrocybe s.l.). The genus was described as late as 2016 (Birkbak et.al 2016). Only one species has been found in Norway on two different locations.

Mycena

This is a large and varied group of small, not fleshy species (Emmet et al.). They have very different ecology, but some of them are common in unfertilized grasslands. They are not usually included in the grassland-fungi.

References:

Birkebak JM, Adamčík S, Looney BP, & Matheny PB. 2016. Multilocus

phylogenetic reconstruction of the Clavariaceae (Agaricales) reveals polyphyly of agaricoid members. Mycologia, 108(5), 860–868.

Boertman, D. 2012. Camarophyllopsis. In Nordic Macromycetes. s. 242

Emmet, EE, Aronsen, A, Læssøe, T, Elborne, SE. 2012. Mycena. In Nordic

Macromycetes. S. 407

Vesterholt, J. 2012. Dermoloma. In Nordic Macromycetes s. 464

Vesterholt, J. 2012. Porpoloma. In Nordic Macromycetes. S. 487