Summary ¹

Hygrocybe conica, commonly known as the witch's hat, conical wax cap or conical slimy cap, is a colourful member of the genus Hygrocybe (the waxcaps), found across northern Europe and North America. Originally described as Hygrophorus conicus, it may actually be a complex of closely related and similar species.

Barcode data: hygrocybe conica ²

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


There are 6 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.

Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.

See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.

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2. (c) Barcode of Life Data Systems, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/30754387

More Info

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• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
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• SEINet Symbiota portals
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