#177: Coprinoid Mushrooms

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  1. February 17, 2017

    […] is only one other group of mushrooms with black spores: the coprinoid mushrooms (inky caps, FFF#177). Coprinoid mushrooms are thin and fragile and/or have gills that liquefy, which readily […]

  2. April 14, 2017

    […] (FFF#174) species, non-deliquescent coprinoid mushrooms (FFF#177), Bolbitaceae species, and cortinarioid mushrooms can all appear similar to stropharioid mushrooms. […]

  3. May 5, 2017

    […] Coprinoid11,27,28 […]

  4. June 23, 2017

    […] commonly known as “The Mica Cap” or “The Glistening Inkcap” is one of the rare inky caps (FFF#177) that is easy to identify. These medium-sized mushrooms appear in dense clusters on dead wood and […]

  5. June 8, 2018

    […] in the Psathyrellaceae lineage of inky caps,6 which means it is related to coprinoid mushrooms (see FFF#177) in the genera Coprinopsis, Parasola, and Psathyrella but unrelated to the well-known inky caps in […]

  6. June 15, 2018

    […] spores into the air, the asci of C. petersii liquefy (“deliquesce” like inky cap gills, see FFF#177) to make a spore-containing slime that slowly exudes out of the perithecia. This creates the dark […]

  7. July 20, 2018

    […] now contains all the inky caps except the Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus) and its relatives.6 See FFF#177 for more on inky cap […]

  8. August 11, 2018

    […] have evolved in two separate lineages and the genus Coprinus had to be pared down quite a bit (see FFF#177). The Blushers definitely belong to the genus Amanita (FFF#172), although their exact placement […]

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