Clitocybe rivulosa (Pers.) P. Kumm.
(Fool’s Funnel)

Interactions where Clitocybe rivulosa is the controlling partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

Stage Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season
fruitbody fruitbody is saprobic on dead, rotting litter POACEAE grasses, couch Poales Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae/Clitocybe rivulosa/Clitocybe rivulosafool's funnelfruitbody Foodplant / saprobe /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Poaceaegrasses, couchdead, rottinglitter

Clitocybe rivulosa (Fool’s Funnel) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Clitocybe rivulosa (Fool’s Funnel) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Author & YearTitleSource
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesClitocybe rivulosa (Fool’s Funnel)
GenusClitocybe (funnel caps)
FamilyTRICHOLOMATACEAE (a family of toadstools)
OrderAGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
ClassAGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
SubphylumAGARICOMYCOTINA
PhylumBASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers)
KingdomFUNGI (true fungi)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Clitocybe rivulosa (Fool’s Funnel)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Reid, D.A. 1985 Canine poisoning by Clitocybe species Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. Vol 19 (2): 117-118.

Clitocybe rivulosa (Fool’s Funnel) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Literature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Clitocybe rivulosa (Fool’s Funnel):

The common small white toadstool of grassland. It is distinguished by the white cap often mottled with pinkish ochre patches and/or concentric cracks where the underlying tissue shows. The species is deadly poisonous, containing ’Muscarine’, the chemical originally thought to be the poisonous principle in Amanita muscaria. All white Clitocybes should be stringently avoided when collecting for the table.

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