Talk:Collybia brunneocephala

See also

@Jengod: Why that species out of all the various others? - UtherSRG (talk) 12:47, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@UtherSRG such a good question. Because brownits and blewits on the west coast of North America all sort of look alike (the blewits turn browner as they age and you can only see the purple on the stem and inside the flesh of the cap/pileus). C. violaceifolia will supposedly be moved to Collybia with nuda and brunneocephala eventually, you can find mentions of Collybia violaceifolia (prov. comb.) a couple of places, but who knows when the official publication could be. Anyway, C. nuda is mentioned in the article (and I should probably expand on the visual overlap with wood blewits) but C. violaceifolia is mentioned basically nowhere in the "official" scientific literature or fungi field guides except the original species description, probably bc people have just assumed its C. nuda and thus pretty much ignored it until recently.

so, long story short, the three are a species cluster but there's not enough sources on C. violaceifolia to even form a full sentence about the association so I put it in the "see also" bin as a work around. It's not at all an essential addition to the article, but it's "collybia of the west coast of North America" adjacent IMO.

jengod (talk) 15:45, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

And that's a beautiful answer. :) - UtherSRG (talk) 20:00, 24 February 2024 (UTC)