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Mosscap
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Mosscap

Rickenella

Rickenella is a genus of brightly colored bryophilous agarics in the Hymenochaetales that have an omphalinoid morphology. They inhabit mosses on mossy soils, peats, tree trunks and logs in temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Phylogenetically related agarics are in the genera Contumyces, Gyroflexus, Loreleia, Cantharellopsis and Blasiphalia, as well as the stipitate-stereoid genera Muscinupta and Cotylidia. and the clavarioid genus, Alloclavaria.

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9 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Rickenella fibula

complexRickenella fibula

Collared Mosscap

speciesRickenella swartzii

Rickenella mellea

speciesRickenella mellea

Rickenella sp. 'fibula-PNW01'

speciesRickenella sp. 'fibula-PNW01'

Rickenella sp. 'HI01'

speciesRickenella sp. 'HI01'

Rickenella sp. 'PNW02'

speciesRickenella sp. 'PNW02'

Rickenella minuta

speciesRickenella minuta

Rickenella danxiashanensis

speciesRickenella danxiashanensis

Rickenella sp. 'fibula-CA01'

speciesRickenella sp. 'fibula-CA01'

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 118174.