THE CHECKLIST OF SHROPSHIRE FUNGI 2011 Contents Page Introduction 2 Name changes 3 Taxonomic Arrangement (with page numbers) 19 Checklist 25 Indicator species 229 Rare and endangered fungi in /Shropshire (Excluding BAP species) 230 Important sites for fungi in Shropshire 232 A List of BAP species and their status in Shropshire 233 Acknowledgements and References 234 1 CHECKLIST OF SHROPSHIRE FUNGI Introduction The county of Shropshire (VC40) is large and landlocked and contains all major habitats, apart from coast and dune. These include the uplands of the Clees, Stiperstones and Long Mynd with their associated heath land, forested land such as the Forest of Wyre and the Mortimer Forest, the lowland bogs and meres in the north of the county, and agricultural land scattered with small woodlands and copses. This diversity makes Shropshire unique. The Shropshire Fungus Group has been in existence for 18 years. (Inaugural meeting 6th December 1992. The aim was to produce a fungus flora for the county. This aim has not yet been realised for a number of reasons, chief amongst these are manpower and cost. The group has however collected many records by trawling the archives, contributions from interested individuals/groups, and by field meetings. It is these records that are published here. The first Shropshire checklist was published in 1997. Many more records have now been added and nearly 40,000 of these have now been added to the national British Mycological Society’s database, the Fungus Record Database for Britain and Ireland (FRDBI). During this ten year period molecular biology, i.e. DNA analysis has been applied to fungal classification. This has brought about some changes in the position of many species within the taxonomic framework. Some species have been moved to different genera and some genera have been split e.g. Coprinus has been divided into Coprinus which is in Agaricaceae and Coprinellus, Coprinopsis, and Parasola which are now in Psathyrellaceae. The publication of the Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota 2005 and its subsequent updates have made the changes to the basidiomycota readily accessible to amateur mycologists. This book has been used as the authority for the Basidiomycota (up to the 2010 update). There is no up-to-date corresponding work for the remaining groups, however the FRDBI is now online and has been used as the authority for groups other than Basidiomycota (as of May 2010). Using both of the above the databases the fungus names in the Shropshire records have been completely updated but a field in the database has been kept with the original recorded name so that any errors can be readily traced. A section of these name changes has been included in this publication. Such is the speed of change that the names and taxonomy of many species in this Checklist will already be out of date. The Shropshire records are held on a Microsoft Access™ database structured in a similar manner to the FRDBI to make the transfer of records relatively simple. In this Checklist the information is necessarily sparse; the records in the database can contain much more specific information on the site, (including grid reference) and details of who found the specimen and who identified it. If a fungus is rare there may be details of who confirmed the identification and if a dried specimen has been kept. In some instances material may be sent to Kew Royal Botanical Gardens for formal identification, in which case a record of the Kew specimen number and the person confirming the specimen will be kept as part of the record for that species. The Checklist places each species within its taxonomic framework, with its associated organism or host where recorded,(many of the older records do not contain this information and “Unknown”has been entered for the associated organism), and the number of times it has been recorded. The taxonomic framework is outlined with page numbers for each family. The term “incertae sedis is defined as “uncertain affinities” which means that its lineage is not fully understood. Some very basic analysis has been done to give an overview of fungi in Shropshire. This information is given after the checklist. BAP = Biodiversity Action Plan. Species listed under this plan are designated for conservation action by the UK government. See ukbap.org.uk for more details. 2 MAIN NAME CHANGES NAME AS RECORDED CURRENT NAME Acrocordia epipolaea Acrocordia conoidea Agaricus campestris Agaricus campestris var. campestris Agaricus essettei Agaricus silvicola var. silvicola Agaricus fissuratus Agaricus arvensis Agaricus haemorrhoidarius Agaricus silvaticus Agaricus macrosporus Agaricus urinascens var. urinascens Agaricus maleolens Agaricus bernardii Agaricus mediofuscus Agaricus langei Agaricus nivescens Agaricus osecanus Agaricus placomyces Agaricus moelleri Agaricus pseudovillaticus Agaricus cappelianus Agaricus purpurellus Agaricus dulcidulus Agaricus silvaticus var. pallens Agaricus silvaticus Agaricus silvicola Agaricus silvicola var. silvicola Agaricus squamuliferus Agaricus benesii Agaricus urinascens Agaricus urinascens var. urinascens Agaricus vaporarius Agaricus cappelianus Agaricus variegans Agaricus impudicus Agaricus xanthodermus var. griseus Agaricus xanthodermus Agrocybe semiorbicularis Agrocybe pediades Akenomyces costatus Akenomyces costatus var. costatus Albugo tragopogonis Albugo tragopogonis var. tragopogonis Alectoria jubata var. chalybeiformis Bryoria chalybeiformis Alysidium dubium Botryobasidium aureum Amanita citrina Amanita citrina var. citrina Amanita excelsa Amanita excelsa var. excelsa Amanita inaurata Amanita ceciliae Amanita muscaria Amanita muscaria var. muscaria Amanita rubescens Amanita rubescens var. rubescens Amanita spissa Amanita excelsa var. spissa Amanita strangulata Amanita ceciliae Amanita verna Amanita virosa Anisomeridium nyssaegenum Anisomeridium polypori Aphanobasidium allantosporum Phlebiella allantospora Aphanobasidium filicinum Phlebiella filicina Aphanocladium album Nectriopsis sporangiicola Apiocrea chrysosperma Hypomyces chrysospermus Apiocrea tulasneana Hypomyces tulasneanus Apiognomonia veneta Apiognomonia errabunda Arcyria flava Arcyria nutans Arcyria obvelata Arcyria nutans Armillariella polymyces Armillaria ostoyae Arthopyrenia lapponina Arthopyrenia analepta Arthroderma curreyi Illosporium curreyi Ascobolus furfuraceus Ascobolus stercorarius Aspicilia contorta Aspicilia contorta subsp. contorta Aureobasidium pullulans Aureobasidium pullulans var. pullulans Aureoboletus cramesinus Aureoboletus gentilis Bacidia muscorum Bacidia bagliettoana Bacidia sabuletotum Bilimbia sabuletorum 3 NAME AS RECORDED CURRENT NAME Bacidia vezdae Fellhaneropsis vezdae Badhamia lilacina Badhamia lilacina var. lilacina Badhamia obovata Craterium dictyosporum Badhamia rubiginosa var. globosa Craterium muscorum Baeomyces roseus Dibaeis baeomyces Basidiodendron nodosum Basidiodendron radians Bauhinus succisae Microbotryum succisae Berlesiella nigerrima Capronia nigerrima Bertia moriformis Bertia moriformis var. moriformis Biatorella pruinosa Sarcogyne regularis Bilimbia aromatica Toninia aromatica Blistum ovalisporum Polycephalomyces tomentosus Bolbitius aleuriatus Bolbitius reticulatus Bolbitius tener Conocybe apala Bolbitius titubans Bolbitius titubans var. titubans Bolbitius vitellinus Bolbitius titubans var. titubans Boletus aestivalis Boletus reticulatus Boletus erythropus var. immutatus Boletus erythropus Boletus lanatus Boletus subtomentosus Boletus luridiformis Boletus luridiformis var. luridiformis Boletus luridus Boletus luridus var. luridus Boletus parasiticus Pseudoboletus parasiticus Boletus pinicola Boletus pinophilus Boletus piperatus Chalciporus piperatus Boletus purpureus Boletus rhodopurpureus Boletus spadiceus Boletus ferrugineus Boletus versicolor Boletus rubellus Botryosphaeria foliorum Guignardia philoprina Botrytis gladiolorum Botryotinia draytonii Botrytis narcissicola Botryotinia narcissicola Bovista dermoxantha Lycoperdon dermoxanthum Bovista pusilla Lycoperdon dermoxanthum Bryoria fuscescens Bryoria fuscescens var. fuscescens Buellia canescens Diploicia canescens Buellia punctata Amandinea punctata Byssostilbe stilbigera Polycephalomyces tomentosus Calocybe leucocephala Calocybe constricta Caloplaca aurantiaca Caloplaca flavovirescens Caloplaca cerina Caloplaca cerina var. cerina Caloplaca heppiana Caloplaca flavescens Caloplaca isidiigera Caloplaca chlorina Caloplaca pyracea Caloplaca holocarpa Calvatia excipuliformis Lycoperdon excipuliforme Calvatia utriformis Lycoperdon utriforme Calycellina punctiformis Calycellina punctata Camarophyllus pratensis Hygrocybe pratensis var. pratensis Candelariella aurella Candelariella aurella f. aurella Candelariella aurella f. aurella Candelariella aurella f. aurella Candelariella coralliza Candelariella coralliza Candelariella medians Candelariella medians f. medians 4 NAME AS RECORDED CURRENT NAME Candelariella vitellina Candelariella vitellina f. vitellina Cantharellula cyathiformis Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis Cantharellula graveolens Pseudoomphalina graveolens Catillaria chalybeia Catillaria chalybeia var. chalybeia Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. fruticulosa Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. flexuosa Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. fruticulosa Ceratocystis ulmi Ophiostoma ulmi Cercospora ferruginea Mycovellosiella ferruginea Cetraria chlorophylla Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla Cetraria glauca var. tenuisecta Platismatia glauca Ceuthospora hederae Trochila craterium Ceuthospora latitans