MycoKey : the genus Clitopilus

Generic short diagnoses: Mostly pale coloured, mealy smelling saprobic or ectotrophic agarics, sometimes pleurotoid or even cyphelloid, with pink spore deposits and longitudinally striate spores.


Species example:


Clitopilus prunulus - DK: gråhvid melhat UK: The Miller
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-05.120

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