MycoKey : the genus Laccaria

Generic short diagnoses: Small to medium-sized, collybioid, robust, ectotrophic agarics with reddish brown, pinkish or lilac colours; spores mostly strongly echinulate, inamyloid.


Species example:


Laccaria amethystina - DK: violet ametysthat UK: Amethyst Deceiver
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-01.115

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