Hygrocybe spadicea (Scop.) P. Karst.
(Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap)

Interactions where Hygrocybe spadicea is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season
fruitbody fruitbody is associated with live POACEAE grasses, couch Poales Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
 /Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Hygrophoraceae/Hygrocybe spadicea/Hygrocybe spadiceadate waxcap, date-coloured waxcapfruitbody Plant / associate /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Poaceaegrasses, couchlive

Author & YearTitleSource
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Hygrocybe spadicea (Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Hygrocybe spadicea (Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesHygrocybe spadicea (Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap)
SubgenusHygrocybe ss. (a subgenus of waxcaps)
GenusHygrocybe (waxcaps, waxcap mushrooms)
FamilyHYGROPHORACEAE (waxcaps and woodwaxes)
OrderAGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
SubclassAGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
ClassAGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
SubphylumAGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
PhylumBASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
KingdomFUNGI (true fungi)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Hygrocybe spadicea (Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Anon. 2014 Readers’ Finds Field Mycology Vol 15 (4): 137-140.
Storey, M. 2007 Readers Finds: Hygrocybe spadicea Vol 8 (1)

Hygrocybe spadicea (Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Conservation

Evans, S. 2003 Conservation Corner (April 2000) Field Mycology Vol 1 (2): 56-57.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Hygrocybe spadicea (Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 14 images of Hygrocybe spadicea (Date Waxcap, Date-coloured Waxcap)

Vulnerable

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A very rare and distinctive waxcap with a date brown cap and yellow gills. It grows in unfertilised grassland often on the sunniest south-facing slopes, or in sites with exposed limestone. It had a very good year in 2006, fruiting after several years’ absence at most of its historic sites and appearing at several new ones.

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