MycoKey : the genus Lacrymaria

Generic short diagnoses: Saprobic, dark brown-spored agarics with strongly developed veil, forming a primary innate covering of the entire pileus and lamellae marbled and weeping when young; spores with dark verrucae and a prominent truncate germ pore.


Species example:


Lacrymaria lacrymabunda - DK: grædende mørkhat UK: Weeping Widow - closeup of gill with immature and mature spores
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-01.104

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