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Identifying Waxcap Fungi : :

Instructions on how to use the key | Waxcap Glossary | Printable version of this key

Step 2 - Stipe Viscid & Cap Viscid : :

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Description of Fungi : :   Possible Match(es) : :

Cap turning black.   conica

Cap dark grey to black, gills & flesh reddening.   No match

Cap white.   No match

Cap or stipe with at least some green.   psittacina var psittacina

Cap violet, lilac or blueish.   lilacina

Cap grey or blue-grey.   irrigata

Cap brown.   irrigata

Cap yellow & conical.   persistens

Cap yellow & convex.  

chlorophana
vitellina
glutinipes var glutinipes
insipida
citrinopallida
kanthochroa

Refine criteria (step 3 : : section 1)


Cap orange & gills free, adnate or adnexed.  

mucronella
insipida
xanthochroa

Refine criteria (step 3 : : section 2)


Cap orange & gills decurrent.  

insipida
lacta
xanthochroa

Refine criteria (step 3 : : section 3)


Cap red & gills red.  

glutinipes var rubra
psittacina var perplexa

Refine criteria (step 3 : : section 4)


Cap red & gills decurrent.  

coccineocrenata
mucronella

Refine criteria (step 3 : : section 5)


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