Genus
Coprinus (Inky caps)
Coprinus calyptratus. Photo: (c) jimsteele, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Coprinus is a small genus of mushroom-forming fungi 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…
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