Coprinus
Sign in to savethumb|234px|Cross-section of a Coprinus mushroom gill, showing basidia (magnified 400×)
Taxonomy · GBIF
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyAgaricaceae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Agaricaceae
- Image
- Coprinus comatus fresh.jpg
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- P105
- genus
- P427
- Coprinus comatus
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- Selected former species
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thumb|234px|Cross-section of a Coprinus mushroom gill, showing basidia (magnified 400×)
Coprinus is a small genus of mushroom-forming fungi consisting of Coprinus comatusthe shaggy ink cap (British) or shaggy mane (American)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 creates gave these species their common name "ink cap" (British) or "inky cap" (American).