Melanoleuca polioleuca (Fr.) Kühner & Maire
(Common Cavalier)

Interactions where Melanoleuca polioleuca 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 [Broadleaved trees] broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees 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/Tricholomataceae/Melanoleuca polioleuca/Melanoleuca polioleucacommon cavalierfruitbody Plant / associate /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/Broadleaved treesbroadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees
fruitbody fruitbody is associated with Rare 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/Tricholomataceae/Melanoleuca polioleuca/Melanoleuca polioleucacommon cavalierfruitbody Plant / associate /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Poaceaegrasses, couchRare
fruitbody fruitbody is associated with PINOPSIDA conifers 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/Tricholomataceae/Melanoleuca polioleuca/Melanoleuca polioleucacommon cavalierfruitbody Plant / associate /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Pinopsida/Pinopsidaconifers

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

Melanoleuca polioleuca (Common Cavalier) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Melanoleuca polioleuca (Common Cavalier) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesMelanoleuca polioleuca (Common Cavalier)
GenusMelanoleuca (cavalier toadstools)
FamilyTRICHOLOMATACEAE (a family of toadstools)
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 Melanoleuca polioleuca (Common Cavalier)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Lanzoni, G., et al 1999 Specie interessanti dell’erbario Lanzoni Fungi Non Delineati Pars VII.

Melanoleuca polioleuca (Common Cavalier) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Melanoleuca polioleuca (Common Cavalier):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 57 images of Melanoleuca polioleuca (Common Cavalier)

The commonest member of the genus, it is a common toadstool of woodland and grassland recognised by the dark flesh in the stem base and grey-brown hygrophanous cap. Earlier records, with those of other similar species, would have been confounded under the name of Melanoleuca melaleuca.

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