Hygrocybe reidii Kühner
(Honey Waxcap)

Interactions where Hygrocybe reidii is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season
fruitbody fruitbody is associated with live POACEAE grasses, couch Poales Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Hygrophoraceae/Hygrocybe reidii/Hygrocybe reidiihoney waxcapfruitbody Plant / associate /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Poaceaegrasses, couchlive

Author & YearTitleSource
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesHygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap)
SubgenusPseudohygrocybe (a subgenus of waxcaps)
GenusHygrocybe (waxcaps, waxcap mushrooms)
FamilyHYGROPHORACEAE (waxcaps and woodwaxes)
OrderAGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
SubclassAGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
ClassAGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
SubphylumAGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
PhylumBASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
KingdomFUNGI (true fungi)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Kibby, G. & Ainsworth, M. 2008 A tribute to Derek Reid - British fungi named after him Field Mycology Vol 9 (2): 51-54.

Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 57 images of Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap)

A small to medium orange waxcap with subdecurrent gills and a characteristic smell of honey or Indian Balsam. It grows in troops in unfertilised lawns and grassland, and fixed dunes as well as frondose woodland and scrub.

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Appears to follow a southern and western distribution with few records in the east of the country north of the Thames.

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