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waxcaps
Gliophorus
Gliophorus is a genus of agaric fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. Gliophorus 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 Czech mycologist Josef Herink in 1958, but is currently synonymized with Hygrocybe by most standard authorities. It has, however, been adopted in New Zealand which has an unusually large number of native Gliophorus species.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Gliophorus sect. Gliophorus
sectionGliophorus

Gliophorus sect. Glutinosae
sectionGlutinosae

Gliophorus sect. Unguinosae
sectionUnguinosae

Gliophorus luteoglutinosus
speciesGliophorus luteoglutinosus

Gliophorus sp. 'FL01'
speciesGliophorus sp. 'FL01'

Gliophorus subheteromorphus
speciesGliophorus subheteromorphus

Gliophorus sulfureus
speciesGliophorus sulfureus

Gliophorus sp. 'NY03'
speciesGliophorus sp. 'NY03'

Gliophorus sp. 'AL01'
speciesGliophorus sp. 'AL01'

Gliophorus sp. 'GA01'
speciesGliophorus sp. 'GA01'

Gliophorus sp. 'LA01'
speciesGliophorus sp. 'LA01'

Gliophorus sp. 'TX01'
speciesGliophorus sp. 'TX01'
Gliophorus bichromus
speciesGliophorus bichromus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 143385.