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Common Name	Scientific Name	Description
Agaricus bohusii	Agaricus bohusii	A rare fungus in the U.K. with a large, scaly cap, usually growing solitary in woodland or pastures, favouring Ash.
Agaricus macrosporus	Agaricus macrosporus	A medium to large fungus that is edible and tasty found, usually growing in groups or rings in meadows and pastureland.
Agaricus silvicola	Agaricus silvicola
Agaricus subfloccosus	Agaricus subfloccosus	Found in mixed woodland. Red staining on cutting floccose cap ring peelable downwards spores 7.5 x 4.5 .
Agaricus xanthoderma var lepiotoides	Agaricus xanthoderma var lepiotoides
Agrocybe rivulosa	Agrocybe rivulosa	Added to the British list in 2004 and has since been found growing all over the country on piles of woodchips, often in large numbers.
Albugo candida	Albugo candida	A white blister-rust parasitic on a wide range of hosts in the family Brassicaceae; shown here on Shepherd's Purse (Capsella) and Hoary Mustard (Hirschfeldia incana).
Alder Bracket	Inonotus radiatus	A smallish reddish brown annual bracket found usually growing in tiers on the trunks of Alder and occasionally on other braodleaf trees.
Allopsalliota geesterani	Allopsalliota geesterani	Monotypic genus with affinities to Agaricus; fruitbody very fleshy, subhypogeous, staining strongly yellow and then purple to almost black.
Amanita inopinata	Amanita inopinata	There is great curiosity as to where this strange species could have originated. At present, it seems most likely to have come from New Zealand.
Amanita phalloides var. alba	Amanita phalloides var. Alba	A white variation of the Death Cap. Equally as deadly.
Amanita submembranacea	Amanita submembranacea	Amanita submembranacea is a medium sized fungus that is strongly olivaceous, initially with a pallid margin. Marginal striations occupy less than one fourth of the pileus radius.
Arcyria denudata	Arcyria denudata	Sporocarps erect , often in large colonies, deep red, fading to...
Arcyria incarnata	Arcyria incarnata	Common on dead wood, rarely reported from dung and on ...
Arcyria nutans	Arcyria nutans	A myxomycete
Armillaria borealis.	Armillaria borealis
Arrhenia retiruga	Arrhenia retiruga	Whitish-grey, cup-shaped then expanding, sessile, margin lobed. White spore print.
Arrhenia Spathulata	Arrhenia spathulata	Very small fungi found on a moss over a gravelly or gritty substrate on sunny sheltered banks. Not Common grows late Autumn to early winter. This specimen was Verified by Dr P.Roberts @Kew k(m)...
Artist's Bracket	Ganoderma applanatum	More or less flat, semicirular, margin acute, often pallid, grey-brown, unber or cocoa-coloured. hard and corky glabrous, upper surface knobbly, concentrically grooved, covered with a hard...
Ascobolus carbonarius	Ascobolus carbonarius
Ascobolus furfuraceus	Ascobolus furfuraceus	The fruit body is only a few hundred microns tall so it can be contained in the low power field of a microsocope. The fruitbody is an apothecium (cup-shaped with an exposed layer of asci (hymenium...
Ascobolus hawaiensis	Ascobolus hawaiiensis	A tiny coprophilous ascomycete. Recorded on sheep and rabbit dung; recognised chiefly by the warty spores and the spore-size (smaller than the rather similar Ascobolus stictoideus.
Ascocoryne cylichnium	Ascocoryne cylichnium	An ascomycete Distinguished from Ascocoryne sarcoides by the more obviously cup-shaped fruiting body and larger spores.
Aurantiporus fissilis	Aurantiporus fissilis