Rush Disco - Lachnum apalum
Cream/pale peach hymenium with margins and exteriors covered in hairs with stalks.
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Found on the dead stems and leaves of Soft-rush (Juncus effusus) and Hard Rush (Juncus inflexus).
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Tim Sexton
Rutland Water Nature Reserve
12 November 2021
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Species profile
- Common names
- Rush Disco
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Helotiales
- Family:
- Lachnaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 12/11/2021 (Sexton, Timothy)
- Last record:
- 12/11/2021 (Sexton, Timothy)
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