MycoKey : the genus Galerina

Generic short diagnoses: Mostly yellowish brown, mycenoid or more rarely collybioid, ± vividly brown-spored, saprobic agarics, often associated with bryophytes or dead wood. Lamellae more spaced than in the macroscopically similar Conocybe species. Spores more or less ornamented, often with plaque.


Species example:


Galerina marginata - DK: randbæltet hjelmhat UK: Funeral Bell
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-89.193

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