Species
Hygrocybe virescens (Lime-green waxy cap)
Hygrocybe virescens. Photo: (c) Zoe Houston, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Hygrocybe virescens, commonly known as the lime-green waxy cap, is a species of agaric mushroom in the Hygrophoraceae family. The lime-green colored mushroom has a limited geographical distribution, having been reported only from California, Washington, and Mexico.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Suborder: Hygrophorineae
- Family: Hygrophoraceae
- Subfamily: Hygrocyboideae
- Tribe: Hygrocybeae
- Genus: Hygrocybe (Waxcaps)
- Subgenus: Hygrocybe (Hygrocybe subg. hygrocybe)
- Section: Microsporae (Hygrocybe sect. microsporae)
- Species: Hygrocybe virescens (Lime-green waxy cap)
- Section: Microsporae (Hygrocybe sect. microsporae)
- Subgenus: Hygrocybe (Hygrocybe subg. hygrocybe)
- Genus: Hygrocybe (Waxcaps)
- Tribe: Hygrocybeae
- Subfamily: Hygrocyboideae
- Family: Hygrophoraceae
- Suborder: Hygrophorineae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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