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Red waxies Maybe a rare species... looking for confirmation Fall,Geotagged,Hygrocybe fenestrata,United States Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Red waxies

Maybe a rare species... looking for confirmation

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    It's gorgeous. I noticed how the name is not known/accepted at Wikipedia, GBIF and EOL. I'm thinking it's recently discovered and in the proposal phase if I read this correctly:
    https://fundis.org/images/PDF/msa2020/poster_ReHickey_Ness_103.pdf     Posted one year ago
    1. View morpheme's profile
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      Oh - I missed that tidbit, yes, It's listed as name proposed. It certainly looks to be distinct from its closest visual match - Hygrocybe psittacina - totally different colors. The document you linked to mentions it's only been found here in WA once - I think now it's twice :) Posted one year ago, modified one year ago
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        May be a very valuable photo! Posted one year ago

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The Hygrocybe fenestrata

A smallish mushroom which is quite viscid everywhere, red fading rather quickly to orange and yellow (like many others) but usually with a milky translucent "window" on the cap disc. It is a fairly new discovery from California now known to occur in Washington, and when it gets a name, that name may be Hygrocybe fenestrata, but for now it is "np", or a proposed name only. It was thought to belong in Gliophorus because of it's extremely viscid nature, but it too belongs in Hygrocybe.

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Similar species: Agaricales
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Uploaded Dec 13, 2023. Captured Dec 12, 2023 17:08 in 137 25th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112, USA.
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  • 50mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.