AuthorRedhead, S.A.
Year2001
TitleBully for Coprinus - a story of manure, minutiae and molecules
TypePaper
SourceField Mycology Vol 2 (4): 118-126.
IllustrationsColour and half-tone photographs
Review (by Malcolm Storey)Traces the history of our understanding of "Coprinus" from its coining by Persoon in 1797 to recent DNA results which show it to be highly polyphyletic.

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCoprinus comatusShaggy Inkcap, Lawyer’s WigFungi: Agaricales: Agaricaceae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCoprinellus disseminatusFairy Inkcap, Crumble Cap, Fragile Inkcap, Fairies’ BonnetsFungi: Agaricales: Psathyrellaceae
CurrentCoprinusinkcapsFungi: Agaricales: Agaricaceae
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