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KEY TO GENERA OF THE AGARICACEAE CLICK on spore color:
<White> <Rosy>
<Ocher>
<Yellow>
<Brown>
<Purple-brown
> <Black> Fungi soft or generally fleshy, soon decaying and not reviving
well when moistened: Ring or volva or both
present Volva
and ring both present -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amanita Volva
present, ring absent ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amanitopsis Volva
absent, ring present Gills free from stem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lepiota Gills attached to the stem -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amillaria Ring and volva both
absent Stem
excentric or lateral ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pleurotes Gills decurrent Edge
blunt, foldlike, forked ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cantharellus Edge
thin, stem fibrous outside ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clitocybe Edge
thin, stem cartilaginous outside --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Omphalia Gills sinuate, general structure fleshy
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Tricholoma Gills adnate or adnexed Cap
rather fleshy, margin incurved when young ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Collybia Cap
thin, margin of cap at first straight, mostly bell-shaped --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mycena Cap
fleshy, gills very rigid and brittle, stem stout Milk present ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lactarius Milk absent ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Russula Gills various, often decurrent, adnate or
only adnexed, edge thin, thick at junction of cap, usually distant, waxy.
-------Hygrophorus Fungi coriaceous, tough, fleshy or membraneous, reviving when
moistened Stem generally central,
substance of cap noncintinuous with that of stem, gills thin, often connected
by veins or ridges ------ Marasmius Stem central, excentric,
lateral, or absent, substance of cap continuous with that of stem Edge of gills toothed or serrate ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lentinus Edge of gills not toothed or serrate --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Panus Edge of gills split into two laminae and
revolute -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Schizophyllum Fungi corky or woody, gills radiating ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lenzites Stem excentric or absent and pilous lateral --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Claudopus Stem central Volva present, annulus
wanting ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Volvaria Volva and annulus absent
Cap easily separating from stem, gills
free ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pluteus Cap confluent with stem, gills sinuate -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Entoloma Ocher-Spored Genera (Spores Yellow or Brown) Gills easily separable from flesh of cap Margin of cap incurved,
gills somewhat decurrent forked or connected with veinlike reticulations ----------------------------------
Paxillus Gills not easily separable from flesh of cap Universal veil present,
arachnoid -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cortinarius Universal veil absent Ring present -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pholiota Ring absent Stem
central Cap turned in --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Naucoria Cap not turned in ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Galera Stem
excentric or none ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Crepidotus Cap easily separating from stem, gills usually free -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Agaricus Cap not easily separating from stem, gills attached Ring present ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stropharia Ring absent, veil
remaining attached to margin of cap -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hypholoma Gills deliquescing, cap thin, ring present in some species ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coprinus Gills not deliquescing Margin of cap striate,
gills not variegated -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Psathyrella Margin of cap not
striate, gills variegated --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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