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Richmond Park Fungi

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This Report was prepared by Eleanor Lawrence (telephone number 0208 2802) following visits by her and Elizabeth Cheesman (both Members of the London Wildlife Trust local group) on 9/10/11 October 1999 plus a couple of species found in this area on 17 October.

Kilometre square 1970

First mention of species roughly in order starting at Kingston Gate car park going towards Ham Gate along bottom of park, west of road, to just past the drain and returning on east side of road via Gallows Pond and along edge of woodland on King’s Clump. Numbers of specimens (approximate only) include all found during that portion of the walk.

Where we found something but I haven’t managed to identify it yet, I’ve included it with a note. I have the odd day free in the next few weeks so will go back as weather and time permits and see if I can find it again, now that I know what points I’m looking for.

Grassland/bracken and oak parkland; some hawthorn, and also beech, especially felled timber. Birch locally, esp. on King’s Clump.

Species* [Synonyms]	No.	Site
Parasol Macrolepiota procera (Scop.: Fr.) Sing. [Leucocoprinus procerus (Scop.: Fr.) Pat.; Lepiota procera (Scop.: Fr.) S.F. Gray]	5	Grassland
Red-cracked Bolete Xerocomus chrysenteron (Bull.) Quél. [Boletus chrysenteron Bull.]	(6+) Fre-quent	Around oak
Fairy-ring Mushroom Marasmius oreades (Bolt.: Fr.) Fr.	5	Grassland
Thelephora terrestris (Scop.) Fr. still to be properly identified	1	At base and near oak
Panaeolus sphinctrinus (Fr.) Quél. [Panaeolus campanulatus var. sphinctrinus (Fr.) Quél.	Fre-quent	Grass
Mycena epipterygia (Scop.: Fr.) S.F. Gray	4	Grass
Collybia butyracea (Bull.: Fr.) Kummer	1	Grass
Gymnopilus spectabilis (Fr.) Gill. [Gymnopilus junonius (Fr.) P. Orton; Pholiota spectabilis (Fr.) Kummer]	1	Oak stump
Mycena inclinata (Fr.) Quél. [Mycena galericulata var. calopus (Fr.) Karst.]	1	Oak stump
The Blusher Amanita rubescens ([Pers.] Fr.) S.F. Gray	3+	Grass near oak
Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare (Huds.: Fr.) Kummer [Geophila fasciculans (Huds.: Fr.) Quél.; Naematoloma fasciculare (Huds.: Fr.) Karst.]	1	Oak branch
Tubaria furfuracea (Pers.: Fr.) Gill.	1	Grass/ litter
Rickenella fibula (Bull.: Fr.) Raith. [Mycena fibula (Bull.: Fr.) Kühn; Gerronema fibula (Bull.: Fr.) Sing.; Omphalia fibula (Bull.: Fr.) Kummer]	3+	Old anthills
Omphalina ericetorum (Fr.: Fr.) J. Lange [Omphalina umbellifera (L.: Fr.)Quél.]	1	Old anthills

Lycoperdon echinatum Pers.	1	Old anthills
Lycoperdon perlatum Pers.: Pers. [Lycoperdon gemmatum Batsch]	1	Grass
Fuligo septica (L.) Wiggers (a slime mould)	1	Dead wood
Psathyrella hydrophila (Bull.) Maire [Psathyrella piluliformis (Bull.: Fr.) Orton; Hypholoma hydrophilum (Bull.) Quél.	1	Oak stump
Psathyrella multipedata (Peck) A.H. Smith	1	Grass near stump
Russula atropurpurea (Krombh.) Britz.	1	Grass, near oak
Russula xerampelina (Schaeff.) Fr.	1	Grass, near oak
Lycoperdon pyriforme Schaeff.: Pers.	1 (sev-eral fruit-bodies)	On ground following course of underground root
Meripilus giganteus (Pers.: Fr.) Karst. [Polyporus gigantea Pers.: Fr.; Grifola gigantea (Pers.: Fr.) Pil.]	1	At base of beech
Bjerkandera adusta (Wild.: Fr.) Karst. [Polyporus adustus Wild.: Fr.; Gloeoporus adustus (Wild.: Fr.) Pil.]	2	Dead felled trunks, branches; oak or beech
Stereum hirsutum (Wild.: Fr.) S.F. Gray	2	Dead hardwood
Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.: Wallr.)	1	Dead fallen trunk
Creolophus cirrhatus (Pers.: Fr.) Karst. RARE.	1	Found near beech (had been broken off)
Shaggy Parasol Macrolepiota rhacodes (Vitt.) Sing. [Lepiota rhacodes (Vitt.) Quel.	1 (3 fruit-bodies close together)	By old fallen trunk
Coriolis versicolor (Nees: Fr.) Quél. [Trametes versicolor (Schaeff.) Jül.; T. zonata (Nees: Fr.) Pil.]	2	On dead logs

Collybia dryophila (Bull.: Fr.) Kummer [Collybia aquosa (Bull.: Fr.) Kummer; Marasmius dryophilus var. aquosus (Bull.: Fr.) Rea]	1	Grass/ litter near oak
Collybia peronata (Bolt.: Fr.) Kummer [Marasmius peronatus (Bolt.: Fr.) Fr.; Marasmius urens (Bull.: Fr.) Fr.]	1	In litter, rooted onto twig
The Deceiver Laccaria laccata (Scop.: Fr.) Cke. [Clitocybe laccata (Scop.: Fr.) Kummer]	2	Grass
Mycena aetites (Fr.) Quél. [Mycena miserior Huisjman; Mycena umbellifera (Schaeff.) Quél.]	3	Grass
Macrolepiota excoriata (Schaeff.: Fr.) Wasser [Leucocoprinus excoriatus (Schaeff.: Fr.) Sing.; Lepiota excoriata (Schaeff.: Fr.) Sing. RARE (Our specimen fits the picture and description in Phillips to a ‘T’ so I think it must be this one. However, on Monday, in the same place, I found another specimen, very similar but with no sign of the buff scales and umbo to cap, and which I would have identified as Leucoagaricus leucothites (Vitt.) Wasser [Lepiota leucothites (Vitt.) P. Orton.] (also RARE). So we’ve either got both (unlikely as they are both said to be rare, but Phillips also has a mixture in one of his photos so perhaps they habitually grow together?), or one is right and the other wrong. I am convinced that the pic in Phillips identifies our first specimen.)	1 1	Short grass by road Short grass by road
Agaricus xanthodermus Genevier [Psalliota xanthoderma (Genevier) Richon & Roze]	1	Short grass by road
Agaricus vaporarius (Quél.) Sacc. [Psalliota vaporaria (Vitt.) Møller & Schaeff.] Found on Monday when poking around by roadside at site of above entry.	1	Short grass by road
Now on east side of road. Coming up to Gallows pond and along by base of King’s Clump.
Marasmius oreades	2	Short grass
Lyophyllum leucophaeatum (Karst.) Karst	1	By old stump
Amanita rubescens	1	Near oak

Macrolepiota procera	2	In grass/ bracken
Xerocomus chrysenteron	10+	Near oak
Lycoperdon perlatum	1	Near oak
Russula ochroleuca (Pers.: Sécr.) Fr.	1	Near oak/birch
Laccaria amethystea (Bull.) Murr. [Laccaria laccata var. amethystina ([Huds.] Cke.) Rea]	6+	Leaf litter
Russula cyanoxantha (Schaeff.) Fr.	2	Under oak
Beefsteak Fungus Fistulina hepatica Schaeff.: Fr.	1	Oak
Fly Agaric Amanita muscaria (L.: Fr.) Hook.	2	Near birch
Lactarius quietus (Fr.) Fr.	1	Under oak
Bovista plumbea Pers.: Pers.	1	Grass
Psathyrella obtusata (Fr.) A.H. Smith [Drosophila obtusata (Fr.) Kuhn. & Romagn.]	1	Grass

Across Roehampton Gate road in oak and grass just above car park
Mycena pura (Pers.: Fr.) Kummer	1	Grass

17 October 1999, square 1970, going north from Kingston Gate car park, parallel with boundary wall, keeping road to our left. Starts as oak and then goes into beech, then pines and beech on top of hill in heathy grassland.

Species [Synonyms]	No.	Habitat
Macrolepiota procera	1	Grass
Amanita citrina (Schaeff.) S.F. Gray [A. mappa (Batsch) Quél.]	Lots around one or two trees	Under beech
Xerocomus chrysenteron	1	Near beech
Russula fragilis (Pers.: Fr.) Fr.	1	Near beech
Oudemansiella radicata (Relh.: Fr.) Sing. [Collybia radicata (Relh.: Fr.) Quél.]	1	Under beech
Inocybe fastigiata (Schaeff.: Fr.) Quél. [I. pseudofastigiata Rea]	1 (group)	Under beech
Lactarius tabidus Fr. [L. thejogalus (Bull.) Fr.]	1	Near beech, in grass
Schizophyllum commune Fr.	1	Beech log
Bjerkandera adusta	1	Beech log
Coriolis versicolor	1	Beech log
Pseudotrametes gibbosa (Pers.) Bond. & Sing. [Trametes gibbosa (pers.) Fr.]	1	Beech log
Amanita vaginata (Bull.: Fr.) Vitt. [Amanitopsis vaginata (Bull.: Fr.) Roze]	1 (large ring)	On top of hill in heathland (beech & pine) Around a young beech (possibly replanted on site of old one?)
Scleroderma citrinum (Pers.) [S. aurantium (Vaill.) Pers.; S. vulgare Horn.]	1	Near old stump
Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare	1	Old stump
Gymnopilus penetrans (Fr.: Fr.) Murr. [Flammulina penetrans (Fr.: Fr.) Quél.	1	On dead tree (pine)

Square 1971

From Isabella Plantation car park across grassland, reaching main road back to Kingston Gate opposite the road leading to Ham Gate. Then back along edge of grassland/trees above K.G. road, touching service road to Thatchedhouse Lodge. Down steep slope to mown grass alongside main K.G. road.

Amanita muscaria	1	Near Is. Pl. in grass under young beech (probably site of old birch)
Cystoderma amianthinum ([Scop.] Fr.) Fayod [Lepiota amianthina ([Scop.] Fr.) Karst.]	1 (small troop)	Under beech. Although the books say conifer woods, it’s also found on heaths. I’m pretty sure of this identification, as I’ve seen it before, and smell is distinctive.
Amanita pantherina (DC.: Fr.) Krombh.	1	Under oak at side of service road to Thatched Lodge
Amanita rubescens	1	Ditto
Boletus aereus Bull.: Fr. (this could conceivably have been an atypical B. edulis but the cap was much darker brown and somewhat velvety and the stem was covered in a brown network, not white. It looked a dead ringer for the pic. of B. aereus in Phillips, and agreed in all other respects.)	1	Ditto
Boletus edulis Bull.: Fr. (this was a tiny, very young specimen and thus possibly not a reliable identification, but cap had the distinct white rim of B. edulis and swollen stem was pale)	1	Ditto
Red-pored boletes. Need further identification. They will be either erythropus or luridus.	1	Nearby
Russula parazurea Schaeff.	1	Under oak

*Species names as in Jordan (1995) The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, except where indicated otherwise. This is only if no species apparently corresponding to our specimen was given in Jordan, but it was identified from another guide.

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