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Macrolepiota procera

1,508Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
68Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May2
Jun16
Jul41
Aug119
Sep358
Oct684
Nov218
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England161
2Norfolk England141
3Cambridgeshire England99
4Worcestershire England65
5Suffolk England60
6Oxfordshire England42
7Powys Wales35
8Kent England32
9Devon England32
10Cornwall England29
11Pembrokeshire Wales27
12Surrey England24
13Somerset England24
14Essex England17
15Cheshire East England17
1,285 England32 Scotland135 Wales35 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 68 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,508
Peak month
October
Counties with records
68
Scientific name
Macrolepiota procera
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
820
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Agaricaceae
Genus
Macrolepiota
Name with authority
Macrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 8914748