MycoKey : the genus Coprinellus

Generic short diagnoses: Often deliquescent black-spored, saprobic, very delicate or more fleshy agarics, oftwn with plicate pilei; veil often prominent and many with prominent pileocystidia; spores with mostly prominent germ pore, smooth or ornamented; hymenial cystidia mostly prominent.


Species example:


Coprinellus hiascens
Photo and © Jan Vesterholt
Denmark, JV91-548

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