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Topic: Flammulina elastica

Please can you add: Flammulina elastica

Flammulina elastica (Sacc.) Redhead & R.H. Petersen, Mycotaxon 71: 293 (1999)

Synonymy:
Agaricus elasticus Lasch, Bot. Ztg. 15: 171 (1857)
Collybia elastica Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 212 (1887)
Flammulina elastica (Sacc.) Redhead & R.H. Petersen, Mycotaxon 71: 293 (1999) f. elastica
Flammulina elastica f. longispora (Bas) Redhead & R.H. Petersen, Mycotaxon 71: 293 (1999)
Flammulina velutipes f. longispora Bas, Persoonia 12(1): 62 (1983)

First recorded in the UK in 2010, separated from F. velutipes by DNA studies, and can be separated according to spore size.
Recently found and identified by Chris Johnson on South Uist.

Many thanks

Christine Johnson (OHBR)

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Re: Flammulina elastica

That's been done at my end now - it should take a little while to filter through the system but Recorder6 will be getting an update soon that will include it :)

Flammulina elastica (Sacc.) Redhead & R.H. Petersen
tvk = NHMSYS0021127505

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)

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Re: Flammulina elastica

Thank you