The Key to Genus Coprinus from 11.02.2001

Author of the key: Kees Uljé
For web addapted by: Bob

What is your choice?

a.

Fruit bodies medium-sized, somewhat fleshy; stipe 3-10 mm thick; pileus usually brown, never pure white; veil present in form of scattered, granulose floccules or small flocculose scales, often (partly) thick-walled and brown-pigmented under microscope; pileus conical or campanulate, long closed, only tardily expanding, never applanate when old, not grooved, without veil at margin when young.

b.

Fruit bodies very small to small, very thin-fleshed; stipe 0.5-3 mm thick; pileus white to grey; veil mealy-powdery, entirely covering the pileus, at centre often woolly-floccose, white, sometimes pale pinkish brown, yellowish or grey; thin-walled, not pigmented or rarely thick-walled, pale yellow-brown in centre of pileus; pileus expanding to become applanate, usually radially grooved and splitting, when young covered in woolly veil at margin.

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