Jan Merta

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea (cont.)
This species may be mistaken for some other waxcap species and therefore overlooked but it seems very rare in Czechia, it might be rarer than several species globally IUCN rated as VU
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Hygrocybe phaeococcinea
CHEGD high quality seminatural grassland species
Threats: Decline of seminatural grasslands (agricultural changes), long habitat recovery time
I know it from a single previously described locality: bsky.app/profile/lunr...
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea (cont.)
This species may be mistaken for some other waxcap species and therefore overlooked but it seems very rare in Czechia, it might be rarer than several species globally IUCN rated as VU
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea
CHEGD high quality seminatural grassland species
Threats: Decline of seminatural grasslands (agricultural changes), long habitat recovery time
I know it from a single previously described locality: bsky.app/profile/lunr...
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Perenniporia medulla-panis

Perenniporia medulla-panis

Perenniporia medulla-panis
IUCN: NT, Czechia: VU
Saprotroph mostly on old oaks - fallen trunks, in cavities in trunks, stumps
Threats: Logging of mature forests with oak, dead wood removal, age gap.
I know it from one locality - natural reserve, beech forest with oak.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Perenniporia medulla-panis

Perenniporia medulla-panis

Perenniporia medulla-panis
IUCN: NT, Czechia: VU
Saprotroph mostly on old oaks - fallen trunks, in cavities in trunks, stumps
Threats: Logging of mature forests with oak, dead wood removal, age gap.
I know it from one locality - natural reserve, beech forest with oak.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe mucronella (cont.)
I know it from 5 localities, 2 prev. descr.: bsky.app/profile/lunr... bsky.app/profile/lunr..., a small grass patch in a built up area (with C. colemannianus), a basic waxcap meadow, a grass strip with Geoglossum sp. and Ramariopsis sp.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe mucronella (recently shown to be a species complex)
IUCN: VU, Czechia: DD
CHEGD seminatural grasslands species (sometimes also in forests)
Threats: Decline in seminatural grasslands, long time for habitat recovery
Perhaps overlooked, lick your waxcaps.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe mucronella (cont.)
I know it from 5 localities, 2 prev. descr.: bsky.app/profile/lunr... bsky.app/profile/lunr..., a small grass patch in a built up area (with C. colemannianus), a basic waxcap meadow, a grass strip with Geoglossum sp. and Ramariopsis sp.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe mucronella (recently shown to be a species complex)
IUCN: VU, Czechia: DD
CHEGD seminatural grasslands species (sometimes also in forests)
Threats: Decline in seminatural grasslands, long time for habitat recovery
Perhaps overlooked, lick your waxcaps.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Camarophyllopsis schulzeri
IUCN: VU, Czechia: VU
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Decline in seminatural unfertilized grasslands, long habitat recovery time
I know it from a single spot from a previously described locality: bsky.app/profile/lunr...
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Camarophyllopsis schulzeri
IUCN: VU, Czechia: VU
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Decline in seminatural unfertilized grasslands, long habitat recovery time
I know it from a single spot from a previously described locality: bsky.app/profile/lunr...
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens (cont.)
I know it from one locality - A cemetery+chapel and its surroundings. With multiple other CHEGD species, notably H. mucronella agg., Ramariopsis robusta, Dermoloma cuneifolium s.l., C. colemannianus? (fragments, might be fornicatus)
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Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens (I've heard like many waxcaps it's a species complex)
IUCN: VU, Czechia: EN
CHEGD species, high quality seminatural grasslands
Threats: Decline in seminatural grasslands, long time for habitat recovery
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens (cont.)
I know it from one locality - A cemetery+chapel and its surroundings. With multiple other CHEGD species, notably H. mucronella agg., Ramariopsis robusta, Dermoloma cuneifolium s.l., C. colemannianus? (fragments, might be fornicatus)
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens (I've heard like many waxcaps it's a species complex)
IUCN: VU, Czechia: EN
CHEGD species, high quality seminatural grasslands
Threats: Decline in seminatural grasslands, long time for habitat recovery
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

I think Asterophora parasitica, possibly Asterophora lycoperdoides but I think cap skin would probably already start disintegrating and the cap would be covered in brown dust at this maturity stage.

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta
IUCN: VU, Czechia: VU
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Decline in seminatural grasslands, long habitat recovery time
I know it from a single locality - a cemetery. Other CHEGD incl. Dermoloma cuneifolium s.l., Ramariopsis sp.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta

Hygrocybe quieta
IUCN: VU, Czechia: VU
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Decline in seminatural grasslands, long habitat recovery time
I know it from a single locality - a cemetery. Other CHEGD incl. Dermoloma cuneifolium s.l., Ramariopsis sp.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe subpapillata (cont.)
I know it from a single locality - pastures (on sandy soil) rich in CHEGD species incl. H. phaeococcinea, H. mucronella agg., Glutinoglossum sp., Ramariopsis crocea
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata
IUCN: VU, Czechia: DD
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Decline in seminatural unfertilized grasslands, long habitat recovery time
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe subpapillata (cont.)
I know it from a single locality - pastures (on sandy soil) rich in CHEGD species incl. H. phaeococcinea, H. mucronella agg., Glutinoglossum sp., Ramariopsis crocea
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata

Hygrocybe subpapillata
IUCN: VU, Czechia: DD
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Decline in seminatural unfertilized grasslands, long habitat recovery time
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Cuphophyllus flavipes (cont.)
The other is a previously mentioned locality
bsky.app/profile/lunr...
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes
IUCN: VU, Czechia: DD
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Habitat loss (decline in seminatural unfertilized grasslands, long habitat recovery time)
I know it from two localities, first one is a chateau park.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Cuphophyllus flavipes (cont.)
The other is a previously mentioned locality
bsky.app/profile/lunr...
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes

Cuphophyllus flavipes
IUCN: VU, Czechia: DD
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Habitat loss (decline in seminatural unfertilized grasslands, long habitat recovery time)
I know it from two localities, first one is a chateau park.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi

Cuphophyllus flavipes
IUCN: VU, Czechia: DD
CHEGD grassland species
Threats: Decline of seminatural grasslands, slow habitat recovery
I know it from two localities, first one is a chateau park.

The witches cauldron Sarcosoma globosum is considered regionally extinct in Czechia, last find was in 60's, a kind of a holy grail here. The devil's urn (Urnula craterium) is rareish in Czechia, there are known localities in Prague with queues forming each spring. ;) I haven't found either.