COPRINUS

The genus '''Coprinus''' is a small genus of mushrooms consisting of ''Coprinus comatus'' (the shaggy mane) and several of its close relatives. Until 2001, ''Coprinus'' was a large genus consisting of all agaric species in which the lamellae autodigested to release their spores. (The black ink-like liquid this would create gave these species their common name "inky cap".) Molecular phylogenetic investigation found that ''Coprinus comatus'' was only a distant relative of the other members of ''Coprinus'', and was closer to genera in the Agaricaceae. Since ''Coprinus comatus'' is the type species of ''Coprinus'', only that species and its close relatives ''C. sterquilinus'' and ''C. spadiceisporus'' retained the name of the genus^[1].
The majority of species of ''Coprinus'' were therefore reclassified into the genera ''Coprinellus'', ''Coprinopsis'', and ''Parasola''. ''Coprinus'' and these segregate genera are now referred to collectively as ''coprinoid fungi''.

Contents

Species list

Selected former species

References

External links

Species list

★ ''C. comatus'' (Shaggy inkcap)

★ ''C. plicatilis''

★ ''C. spadiceisporus''

★ ''C. sterquilinus''

Selected former species

★ ''Coprinus atramentarius'' - now ''Coprinopsis atramentaria''

References

1. Redhead SA, Vilgalys R, Moncalvo J-M,Johnson J & Hopple, JS Jr. ''Coprinus'' Pers. and the disposition of ''Coprinus'' species ''sensu lato''. ''Taxon'' '50'(1): 203-241. 2001


★ Pierre Montarnal : ''Le petit guide : Champignons'' (Genève, 1964; Paris-Hachette, 1969).

★ Régis Courtecuisse, Bernard Duhem : ''Guide des champignons de France et d'Europe'' (Delachaux & Niestlé, 1994-2000). ISBN 2-603-00953-2

★ Roger Phillips : ''Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe'' (Pan Books Ltd. 1981 / Book Club Associates 1981) - for the English names.

External links

★ "The Genus ''Coprinus'': The Inky Caps" by Michael Kuo, ''MushroomExpert.com'', February, 2005.

★ All about Inkcaps: ''Coprinus'' site of Kees Uljé – taxonomy and keys to coprinoid fungi.

★ Fungus of the Month for May 2004: ''Coprinus comatus'', the shaggy mane by Tom Volk, ''TomVolkFungi.net''.

★ "''Coprinus comatus'': The Shaggy Mane" by Michael Kuo, ''MushroomExpert.com'', September, 2001.

★ "California Fungi: ''Coprinus comatus''", ''MykoWeb.com''.

★ "Wild About Mushrooms: Shaggy Mane Mushroom" by Louise Freedman, ''MykoWeb.com''.