MycoKey : the genus Coprinopsis

Generic short diagnoses: Deliquescent black-spored, saprobic, very delicate or more fleshy agarics, sometimes plicate, smooth, pulverulent, hairy, squamulose to squarrose pilei without projecting cystidia; veil often prominent, of elongate to coralloid or globose elements; spores with mostly prominent germ pore, smooth or ornamented; hymenial cystidia mostly prominent.

Species examples:
Coprinopsis atramentaria
Coprinopsis atramentaria 2
Coprinopsis cortinatus
Coprinopsis cothurnata
Coprinopsis echinospora
Coprinopsis ephemeroides
Coprinopsis erythrocephala
Coprinopsis friesii
Coprinopsis lagopus
Coprinopsis lagopus 2
Coprinopsis lagopus 3
Coprinopsis macrocephala
Coprinopsis nivea
Coprinopsis phlyctidospora
Coprinopsis picacea
Coprinopsis picacea 2
Coprinopsis semitalis
Coprinopsis stercorea


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