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Amethyst Deceiver

Laccaria amethystina

3,326Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
101Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb1
Mar0
Apr3
May2
Jun4
Jul35
Aug236
Sep710
Oct1,620
Nov564
Dec46

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England306
2Gloucestershire England154
3Cambridgeshire England146
4Highland Scotland110
5Oxfordshire England99
6Cornwall England85
7Worcestershire England81
8Kent England74
9Argyll and Bute Scotland56
10Surrey England51
11Suffolk England47
12Cumbria England46
13Sefton England46
14Dumfries and Galloway Scotland45
15Bristol, City of England45
2,559 England427 Scotland93 Wales219 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 101 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,326
Peak month
October
Counties with records
101
Scientific name
Laccaria amethystina
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,451
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Hydnangiaceae
Genus
Laccaria
Name with authority
Laccaria amethystina Cooke
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28492278 · GBIF 2530983