MycoKey : the genus Collybia

Generic short diagnoses: Tiny, mycenoid, white spored agarics with silky pilei and stipes; often springing from sclerotia formed on or within rotten fruitbodies of various fungi (e.g. polypores such as Meripilus, species of Lactarius etc).


Species example:


Collybia cookei - DK: gulknoldet fladhat UK: Splitpea Shanklet
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-01.336

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