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Deceiver

Laccaria laccata

4,609Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
98Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan42
Feb10
Mar5
Apr6
May30
Jun28
Jul112
Aug421
Sep1,127
Oct1,764
Nov751
Dec130

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England462
2Gloucestershire England322
3Highland Scotland260
4Cambridgeshire England210
5Cornwall England189
6Worcestershire England140
7Oxfordshire England132
8Bristol, City of England131
9Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland99
10Sefton England92
11Kent England74
12Aberdeenshire Scotland66
13Argyll and Bute Scotland63
14Cumbria England56
15Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland36
3,366 England706 Scotland172 Wales327 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 98 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,609
Peak month
October
Counties with records
98
Scientific name
Laccaria laccata
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,462
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Hydnangiaceae
Genus
Laccaria
Name with authority
Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Cooke
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q597340 · GBIF 2530926