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Orange Mosscap

Rickenella fibula

1,826Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
86Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb4
Mar3
Apr1
May12
Jun27
Jul83
Aug189
Sep309
Oct764
Nov329
Dec29

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England194
2Gloucestershire England104
3Cambridgeshire England96
4Worcestershire England60
5Highland Scotland56
6Bristol, City of England54
7Powys Wales53
8Kent England43
9Oxfordshire England42
10Sefton England37
11Cornwall England28
12Gwynedd Wales23
13Somerset England22
14Aberdeenshire Scotland22
15Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland20
1,376 England179 Scotland153 Wales101 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 86 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,826
Peak month
October
Counties with records
86
Scientific name
Rickenella fibula
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,744
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Hymenochaetales
Family
Rickenellaceae
Genus
Rickenella
Name with authority
Rickenella fibula (Bull.) Raithelh.
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9105286