Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Family Hygrophoraceae Rank Species | Division Basidiomycota Order Agaricales Genus Hygrocybe | |
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Similar Hygrocybe anomala, Humidicutis, Porpolomopsis lewelliniae, Hygrocybe virescens, Cortinarius rotundisporus | ||
Hygrocybe astatogala is a mushroom of the waxcap genus Hygrocybe. Found in Australia and New Zealand, it was first described scientifically as Bertrandia astatogala by French mycologist Roger Heim in 1936. Paul Heinemann transferred it to Hygrocybe in 1963.
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