Introduction
How To Use
How To Help
Send a Comment

Index A->Z

Latest:
  Changes by Users
  Images
  Comments
  Features and Fixes

Observations:
  Create Observation
  Sort by Date

Species Lists:
  Create List
  Sort by Date
  Sort by Title

Account:
  Login
  Create Account

Contributors
Site Stats

Colors from Cantharellaceae

Powered by:
Ruby on Rails
Preferred browser:
FireFox

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Find:
Google Images | Distribution Map | Email Tracking
Edit Name | Bulk Name Edit | Add Name | Change Synonyms | Deprecate
About: Coprinus Pers.

Rank: Genus
Status: Valid
Name: Coprinus
Author: Pers.
Citation:
Deprecated Synonym(s): Pseudocoprinus
Version: 6
Previous Version: 5

Notes and Comments:

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.

These distinctions are not made in Arora since it was published in the late 80’s. One place you can see the new names is the
Index Fungorum
. There is also discussion of these changes on the Coprinus and Psathyrellaceae pages in Wikipedia. Tom Volk also talks about all this in his May 2004 Fungus of the Month page.

Although it doesn’t use the new names, a useful site for identifying members of Coprinus sensu lato is All about Inkcaps

While this research has greatly reduced the number of species in Coprinus sensu stricto, there are actually a number of species in addition to C. comatus still in Coprinus sensu stricto. MykoWeb has a page on one: Coprinus calyptratus (= Coprinus asterophoroides). This page also mentions C. xerophilus.

Based on the the Pacific Northwest Key Council key for Coprinus sensu lato, there are several others in Coprinus ss. (formerly Coprinus Section Coprinus):

C. arachnoideus
C. alnivorus
C. spadiceisporus
C. umbrinus
C. roseistipitatus
C. colosseus
C. palmeranus

The key provides reasonable ways to differentiate between these. The text on the site also mentions Coprinus sterquilinus which is not in the key, but was one of the species included in the DNA anaylses which came out with C. comatus. I have no idea if the other species mentioned above have actually sequenced or even checked for the macroscopic features of Coprinus ss. to ensure their membership.

Species:

Coprinus "chevicola"
Coprinus alnivorus
Coprinus alopecia
Coprinus americanus
Coprinus arenatus
Coprinus asterophora
Coprinus asterophoroides
Coprinus atramentarius
Coprinus bulbilosus
Coprinus calyptratus Peck
Coprinus cinereus
Coprinus colosseus
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers.
Coprinus cortinatus J.E. Lange
Coprinus cothurnatus
Coprinus curtus
Coprinus disseminatus S.F. Gray
Coprinus domesticus
Coprinus ephemeroides
Coprinus ephemerus
Coprinus fimetarius
Coprinus impatiens
Coprinus insignis
Coprinus lagopides
Coprinus lagopus (Fr.) Fr.
And 24 more...

Observations:

12380
Coprinus sp. Pers. (7178)
Redwood Valley, Mendocino Co., California, USA: (hotash)
Observation made: 2007-11-18
Community confidence: 26%
19008
Coprinus sp. Pers. (10212)
Japan: (forestwander)
Observation made: 2008-08-30
Community confidence: 25%
7205
Coprinus sp. Pers. (4498)
Sonoma Co., California, USA: Douglas Smith (douglas)
Observation made: 2007-10-22
Community confidence: no votes
1237
Coprinus sp. Pers. (1027)
Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin Co., California, USA: Darvin DeShazer (darv)
Observation made: 2006-11-22
Community confidence: no votes
935
Coprinus sp. Pers. (783)
South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado Co., California, USA: Douglas Smith (douglas)
Observation made: 2006-09-30
Community confidence: no votes

Coprinus sp. Pers. (1207)
Chumash Interpretive Center, Thousand Oaks, Ventura Co., California, USA: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Observation made: 2002-12-15
Community confidence: no votes

Coprinus sp. Pers. (1208)
Chumash Interpretive Center, Thousand Oaks, Ventura Co., California, USA: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Observation made: 2002-12-15
Community confidence: no votes


Similar Observations:
(Someone proposed Coprinus Pers. for these observations, but consensus hasn't accepted it. Confidence value is for this name, not the consensus name.)

10285
Coprinopsis atramentaria (Bul.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (6038)
Lorestan, Iran: Abolfazl Arab Jowshaghani (amanita4000)
Observation made: 2005-12-14
Community confidence: 0%
15505
Lepiota sp. (8349)
Lorestan, Iran: Abolfazl Arab Jowshaghani (amanita4000)
Observation made: 2006-04-16
Community confidence: -17%
6558
Parasola plicatilis (Curtis) Redhead, Vilgalys & Hopple (4201)
Menlo Park, San Mateo Co., California, USA: Douglas Smith (douglas)
Observation made: 2007-09-24
Community confidence: -63%
10455
Coprinellus sp. (6115)
Lorestan, Iran: Abolfazl Arab Jowshaghani (amanita4000)
Observation made: 2006-11-04
Community confidence: -83%

Name Created: Tue Jan 09 21:05:02 -0800 2007
Last Modified: Wed Mar 26 09:53:16 -0700 2008 by Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Show Log