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Cuphophyllus sect. Cuphophyllus
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Cuphophyllus sect. Cuphophyllus

Cuphophyllus

Cuphophyllus is a genus of agaric fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. Cuphophyllus species belong to a group known as waxcaps in English, sometimes also waxy caps in North America or waxgills in New Zealand. The genus was described by French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1985. It is synonymized with Hygrocybe by some authorities, although recent molecular evidence confirms its validity as a distinct genus.

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6 branches of this group, most-observed first

Meadow Waxcap

speciesCuphophyllus pratensis

Cuphophyllus austropratensis

speciesCuphophyllus austropratensis

Cuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-IN01'

speciesCuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-IN01'

Cuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-PNW04'

speciesCuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-PNW04'

Cuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-PNW07'

speciesCuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-PNW07'

Cuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-PNW06'

speciesCuphophyllus sp. 'pratensis-PNW06'

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1135347.