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Subgenus | 9 subtaxa | 270 images | 7 ident. refs | ||||
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Subgenus | 15 subtaxa | 467 images | 10 ident. refs | ||||
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Arnolds, E. | Tribus Hygrocybeae (Kühner) Bas & Arnolds in FAN 2 | Bas, C. Pleurotaceae, 12pp, Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2 | |
| Bas, C., Kuper, T.W., Noordeloos, M.E. & Vellinga, E.C. | 1990 | Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2 | Flora Agaricina Neerlandica, Vol 2, 137pp, A. A. Balkema | |
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Boertmann, D. | 2010 | The Genus Hygrocybe (2nd ed) | Fungi of Northern Europe, Vol 1, Second edition edition, 200pp, Danish Mycological Society |
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Boertmann, D. | 1995 | *** The Genus Hygrocybe (1st ed) ***(Superseded) | Fungi of Northern Europe, Vol 1, First edition edition, 184pp, Danish Mycological Society |
| Bon, M. | 1990 | Hygrophoraceae | Documents Mycologiques - Flore Mycologique d'Europe, 1, 99 plus platespp, Marcel Bon | |
| Candusso, M. | 1994 | Hygrophorus | Fungi Europaei, Vol 6, 784pp, Libreria Basso | |
| Edwards, B. | 2106 | Field key to Dorset waxcaps | ||
| Griffith, D.W. & Easton, G. | Waxcap Website | www.aber.ac.uk/waxcap/index.shtml | ||
| Orton, P.D. | 1980 | Notes on British Agarics: VII | Notes R.B.G. Edinburgh Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Vol 38 (3): 315-330. | |
| Orton, P.D. | 1960 | *** New Checklist of British Agarics and Boleti - Part III: Notes on genera and species in the list ***(Superseded) | TBMS Vol 43 (2): 159-439. | |
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Henrici, A. | 1996 | Waxcap-grassland Fungi |
Hygrocybe (waxcaps, waxcap mushrooms) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
 NBN (data.nbn.org.uk)
has a distribution map for Hygrocybe (waxcaps, waxcap mushrooms)
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 BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 45 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Hygrocybe (waxcaps, waxcap mushrooms)
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In Europe, the waxcaps are principally toadstools of unimproved grassland although in North America they are mainly found woodland. Many of our species are large and strikingly bright coloured, although the colour can be washed out by rain or bleached by sunlight.
Characterised by distant thick and waxy gills (hence "waxcap") and microscopically by long slender basidia.
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