MycoKey : the genus Clitocybe

Generic short diagnoses: White to pale pink or yellow-spored, saprobic agarics with more or less decurrent lamellae, and often funnel-shaped pilei; with smooth, non-amyloid spores. Compare with e.g. Omphalina s.l. and Lepista.


Species example:


Clitocybe paxillus - DK: "netblad-tragthat"
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Greenland, JHP G-147

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