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  3. ›Higher Basidiomycetes
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  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
  6. ›Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies
  7. ›Hygrophorineae
  8. ›Waxcaps and Allies
  9. ›Hygrocyboideae
  10. ›Hygrocybeae
  11. ›Hygrocybe
  12. ›Hygrocybe
garlic waxcap
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IUCN NT · Near threatened

garlic waxcap

Hygrocybe helobia

Hygrocybe helobia is a species of agaric (gilled mushroom) in the family Hygrophoraceae. It has been given the recommended English name of garlic waxcap. The species has a European distribution and typically occurs in grassland where it produces basidiocarps (fruit bodies) in the autumn. Threats to its habitat have resulted in the species being assessed as globally "near threatened" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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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 153330.