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 example:


Coprinopsis atramentaria - DK: almindelig blækhat
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-82.439

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