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Nitrous Bonnet

Mycena leptocephala

1,218Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb6
Mar3
Apr5
May14
Jun6
Jul16
Aug69
Sep203
Oct553
Nov237
Dec47

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England117
2Highland Scotland89
3Bristol, City of England65
4Gloucestershire England57
5Sefton England50
6Gwynedd Wales50
7Worcestershire England36
8Cornwall England28
9Aberdeenshire Scotland28
10Cambridgeshire England25
11Kent England18
12Somerset England18
13Argyll and Bute Scotland18
14Liverpool England14
15Wrexham Wales13
879 England195 Scotland101 Wales28 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,218
Peak month
October
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Mycena leptocephala
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,216
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Mycenaceae
Genus
Mycena
Name with authority
Mycena leptocephala (Pers.) Gillet
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 4911720