Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales Family: Psathyrellaceae
Species: Psathyrella ammophila (Durieu & Lév.) P.D. Orton
Synonyms: Agaricus ammophilus
Deconica ammophila
Drosophila ammophila
Psilocybe ammophila
Common Name: Dune Brittlestem


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Psathyrella ammophilaPhotographer: © David Mitchel
In fore dunes on bare sand
Photographer: © David Mitchel

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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Ammophila arenaria (4)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Sand-dune: open dune (2)
Ammophila arenaria mobile dune community (1)
Coastland: fore dunes (1)
Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland (1)
Sand-dune (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Bare sand (1)
Sand (1)
Soil (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
May (3)
June (1)
August (1)
September (1)
October (1)