MycoKey : the genus Lyophyllum

Generic short diagnoses: Very variable saprobic (and ectotrophic?) or moss-parasitic, mycenoid, collybioid or tricholomatoid agarics with smooth or ornamented, cyanophilous spores and siderophilous basidia.


Species example:


Lyophyllum favrei - UK: Gilded Domecap
Photo and © Jan Vesterholt
Switzerland, JV93-992

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