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(Hygrocybe coccineocrenata) (P.D.Orton) M.M. Moser

 

ŠPer Fadnes

 

Hygrocybe coccineocrenata is a small red-orange waxcap with blackish squamulose cap growing in wet areas (bogs). Irregular fructification from year to year.

 

Characteristics:

Cap

Gills

Stipe

Similar species

Up to 20mm first convex later applanate with depressed center. Dry with dark squamules.

Decurrent, pale to yellowish.

Up to 70x4 mm

Long thin with same color as cap.

H. turunda but it normally does  not grow in bogs

 

Ecology/Indicatorvalue:

Grows wet often in Sphagnum (moss) both in poor and calcare ous localities. Very few finds in Western Norway. Irregular fructification. Indicatorvalue unknown.

 

Fructification in Norway: August-September

 

Redlistcategory: Not listed

 

Other Nordic countries:

Sweden

Denmark

Finland

Not listed

NT - near threatened

Not listed

 

 

Distributionmap

 

References:

David Boertmann.2010, The genus Hygrocybe, 2nd revised edition. Fungi of

Northern Europe vol. 1 Svampetryk, Danmark.