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Golden-scruffy Collybia

Cyptotrama asprata

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 260, February 188, March 297, April 252, May 227, June 73, July 19, August 6, September 5, October 5, November 46, December 130.
Australia1,508
New South Wales864
Queensland456
New Zealand261
United States243
South Africa141
Victoria126
Japan82
Canada78
Western Cape76

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

  • DecomposerBreaks down dead organic matter, recycling nutrientsFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderCommon Gilled Mushrooms and Allies · Agaricales
FamilyPhysalacriaceae
GenusCyptotrama

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Golden-scruffy Collybia with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.