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Name: Coprinopsis P. Karst.
Notes on Taxonomy: The genus Coprinus was broken up primarily based on DNA evidence in 2001. Fortunately there are also some good macroscopic features that can be used to distinguish the resulting groups. Based on the new evidence if Coprinellus micaceus and Coprinus comatus (the type for Coprinus) were to remain in the same genus you would have to move all of Agaricus and several other genera into Coprinus (or more likely all the Coprinus species would get renamed Agaricus). The four ‘new’ genera (several of them were actually published long ago) are Coprinus, Coprinellus, Coprinopsis and Parasola. Coprinus is very small and essentially only includes Coprinus comatus and a couple of very close relatives. Coprinellus is a large group with a universal veil that breaks up into small particles like Coprinellus micaceus. Coprinopsis includes the familar Coprinopsis atramentaria (aka the Inky Cap). Here the universal veil is more stringy. Finally, in Parasola there is no universal veil. The most common representative of this genus is Parasola plicatilis.
C. arachnoideus
First person to use this name on MO: Nathan Wilson
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Created: 2007-01-10 05:03:54 WET (+0000) by Nathan Wilson (nathan) |
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