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Common Cavalier

Melanoleuca polioleuca

906Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
59Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb0
Mar3
Apr2
May10
Jun9
Jul7
Aug20
Sep113
Oct408
Nov271
Dec24

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Bristol, City of England92
2Norfolk England75
3Cambridgeshire England68
4Somerset England40
5Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland38
6Highland Scotland34
7Worcestershire England33
8Sefton England32
9Gloucestershire England29
10Oxfordshire England18
11Gwynedd Wales18
12Cornwall England11
13Powys Wales10
14Kent England9
15Cumbria England9
691 England59 Scotland56 Wales70 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 59 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
906
Peak month
October
Counties with records
59
Scientific name
Melanoleuca polioleuca
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
901
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Tricholomataceae
Genus
Melanoleuca
Name with authority
Melanoleuca polioleuca (Fr.) Kühner & Maire
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10580461 · GBIF 5242194