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Key 2.6(1)
Tricholoma
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Does it have a central stalk with a ring?
Yes |
Does it have a central stalk without a ring?
Yes |
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Does the fruiting body revive in water; stalk thin,
long, pliable?
Yes |
The fruiting body does not revive in water; stalk is
thicker, fleshy and/or brittle?
Yes |
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Is the cap smooth or felty?
Yes |
Is the cap covered with long stiff hairs?
Yes |
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Is the stalk blackish-brown?
Yes |
Is the stalk black to yellow-brown?
Yes |
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Is it parasitic on mushrooms?..........Yes............No |
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Are the gills decurrent?
Yes |
Are the gills adnate to adnexed?
Yes |
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Crinipellis
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Is the margin inrolled at first; the stalk brittle or
pliant?
Yes |
Is the stalk thicker, fleshy to pliant? .....
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Yes |
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Are the gills fleshy, pink to violet? .......
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Yes |
It does not have fleshy gills; usually not pink or
violet?
Yes |
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Do the gills stain blackish-brown; stalk water-soaked
and often tan?
Yes |
There is no staining of the gills? .......
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Yes |
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Is the cap 2.5" - 18" and the surface of
the gills and stalk appear chalky white?
Yes |
Is the cap smaller and the gills and stalk not chalky
white?
Yes |
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Is the stalk thin and tall for the size of the cap;
caps convex, unbonate; gills adnexed?
Yes |
Is the stalk thick, fleshy, robust; gills convex or
convex dressed; gills adnate to adnexed?
Yes |
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