MycoKey : the genus Gomphus

Generic short diagnoses: A clavarioid-cantharelloid, fleshy more or less bluish, ectotrophic mushroom with warty cyanophilic ornamented spores and blue to green reactions with FeSO4.


Species example:


Gomphus clavatus - DK: køllekantarel UK: Pig's Ear - closeup of hymenophore
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-97.157

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