MycoKey : the genus Coprinus

Generic short diagnoses: Deliquescent black-spored, saprobic, rather fleshy agarics with ± squarrose pilei and very crowded lamellae; with moveable annulus and internal string in stipe; spores black, with germ pore.


Species example:


Coprinus comatus - DK: paryk-blækhat UK: Shaggy Inkcap / Lawyer's Wig
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, 21.9.1980

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