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basidiomycote
higher mushrooms
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agarics
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protoagarics
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canthagarics
- robust stature
- decurrent gills
- shallow gills
- blunt gills
- gills concolorous & contexturous with cap underside
- unevenly spaced gills
- webbed or crossveined gills
- typical flesh
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boletaliens
- bun-shaped cap
- printing cap surface
- wiggled or semi-cantharelloid gills
- decurrent, trailed, or webbed gills
- non-slender stem
- tapered stem
- forked, decurrent gills
- trailing gills
- soft flesh
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- robust stature
- either (semi)protogills
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or
- in a primarily (semi)protogilled order
- sharing gill-related and other features with (semi)protogilled relatives
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polyagarics
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polygills
conspicuous connection to polypores:
- tough flesh
- labyrinthine or pore-mingled gills
- synced gill edges
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toughies
inconspicuous connection to polypores:
- on wood
- tough flesh or serrated gills
- trailed gills or synced gill edges
- eccentric or pleurotoid
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pleuragarics
- sessile
- or eccentric with a poorly-developed stem
- no connection to polypores otherwise
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- sharing gill- or flesh-related features with polypores
- or pleurotoid
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archagarics
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royal flush
- close, thin gills
- (semi)synced gills
- free or adnexed gills
- typical flesh
- white, brown, or pink spore print
- two or more of:
- large
- robust
- remarkably decorated:
- heavily textured cap
- well-formed ring
- cup or decorated bulb
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pinkgills
- not remarkably decorated
- unsynced gills
- decurrent to sinuate to hooked gills
- typical flesh
- pink spore print
- often:
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light horde
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russuloids
- robust
- no delicate decoration
- uplifted-decurrent to sinuexed gills
- straight to arched gill outlines
- firm to crumbly flesh
- white to yellowish spore print
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magnificent seven
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hygrophoroids
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waxvaults
- intermediate between woodwaxes and fanvaults
- dull colors
- waxy gills
- decurrent/arched gills or distinctive smells
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- whitish spore print
- either:
- non-free, non-adnexed gills
- not remarkably decorated
- often:
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dark horde
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quirky darkspores
- remarkable similarity to light-spored agarics, by either
- (pale, thick, or well-spaced) decurrent gills
- pale, close, soft, straightish-edged gills; white cap
- smooth, bald, colorful cap & stem
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quiet darkspores
- straight-brown spore print
- cap not thickly textured
- stem either:
- membranous-ringed
- distinctly pruinose
- not distinctly fibrillose
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airy darkspores
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inkcaps
- disturbed, artificial, or dung-like substrate
- numerous growth
- dull colors
- conspicuously textured cap
- inking gills
- close, synced gills
- adnexed to free gills
- solid-white, unfaltering stem
- black spore print
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psaths
- dull colors
- dry cap
- non-bald cap
- hygrophanous
- ascending, mid-depth gills
- mottled gills
- minimally faltering stem
- (faintly) fibrillose stem
- fragile flesh
- brownish to blackish spores
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snake agarics
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vanterns
- viper, venom, vicious, etc. (toxicity, similarity to snakelamps)
- +lanterns (warm-colored gills under a lampshade-like cap, perched above the soil)
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eerie darkspores
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pans
- small, slender
- dull-colored
- compact, shouldered cap
- deep, midspaced gills
- mottled gills
- straight or somewhat faltering stem
- faintly pruinose stem
- typical flesh
- blackish spores
- usually:
- terrestrial
- not decorated
- not lined
- blunt-lipped cap
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- either:
- feeble-featured, i.e. 1 or more of:
- skinny
- hygrophanous cap
- mottled gills
- or spore print purple-tinted
- spore print not orange-tinted
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showy darkspores
- on wood
- clustered
- not tiny
- yellowish/orangish colors
- cap decorated or slimy
- straight brown to rusty spore print
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glowy darkspores
- distinctly rusty spore print
- either:
- not on wood
- not clustered
- not yellowish/orangish all over
- non-scaly cap
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troubling darkspores
- cap fibrous, scaly, or blemished-tacky
- straight-brown spore print
- stem either:
- cortinate
- distinctly fibrillose
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- non-free gills
- typical flesh
- brownish spore print
- either:
- unsynced gills
- not remarkably decorated
- often:
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pored caps
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polypores
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poreshelves
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poultry polypores
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chicken-of-the-woods
- large, knobbly
- with bright yellow, orange, or red colors
- subzonate
- pores: miniscule
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portries
- with bright yellow, orange, or red colors
- not chicken-of-the-woods
- not a chaete polypore
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crusts
- effused
- basidiomycote
- not gelatinous
- not a plantsicle
- not a moldoid
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mereoids
- has a cap
- does not have gills, pores, or teeth
- i.e., merely a smooth (stereoid) or wrinkled (merulioid) fertile surface
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pendants
- one or more downward-hanging spines (teeth, branches, etc.)
- unless the spines are non-gelatinous and on a cap (→higher mushrooms→toothed caps)
- or the spines are non-gelatinous and connected by a crust (→crusts→toothcrusts)
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clavarioids
- basidiomycote
- one or more upward/outward-pointing branches
- unless the branches are gelatinous (→jellies→shaped jellies)
- not hollow or chambered
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interphylum
sequestroids
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spores produced in
- (an) enclosed, naked-eye visible chamber(s), or
- many open, naked-eye visible chambers, which were initially closed and jumbled
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jellies
- gelatinous
- no gills, pores, or teeth
- not spine-like or coral-like
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cupoids
- cup- or disc-shaped
- non-gelatinous
- lacking gills, pores, or teeth
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tresparasites
- parasitic
- fruiting conspicuously directly from the host
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either:
- (meta)host belongs to another kingdom, or
- fruitbody is a mushroom
- trespassing in another kingdom; French trés="very"
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moldoids
- no gills, pores, or teeth
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at least two among:
- mold-textured (powdery, wispy, cottony, diffuse)
- mold-structured (non-horizontal filaments/cells, disconnected at least at the surface)
- mold-related (Eurotiales, Erysiphaceae, zygomycote)
- asexual
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infertiles
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twominds
- tuberculate ectomycorrhizae ("two"/"my")
- underground ("tomb")
- brain-like structures formed by intimately fused fungal & plant tissue
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fire squad
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light fungi
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stilboid, i.e.
- has a cap, often bright-/light-colored
- has a skinny stem
- (well) under 1 cm
- no gills, pores, or teeth
- no conspicuous differentiation between top and bottom of cap
- gregarious
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parades of countless identical bright-colored caps →
may evoke Broadway-style lightbulbs
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jewel fungi
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nectrioid, i.e.
- <1 cm
- no cap
- no stem
- pastel- or brightly-colored
- exclusively warm tones (pink, red, orange, yellow)
- tough to hard flesh
- not conspicuously pimpled
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either
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- fruiting from burn-sites
- no cap
- no stem
- no pimples
- not club-, cup-, or coral-like
- not fruiting conspicuously directly from a living host
- ~typical flesh
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ascomycote
tongue mushrooms
- ascomycote
- cap-and-stem, ~tongue- or ~club-shaped
- no gills, pores, teeth, or pimples
- flesh not tough, fibrous or hard
- ~rubbery surfaces
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carbon fungi
- largely black, white, brown, or wine
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at least two among:
- extensively jet black
- tough-fibrous, hard, or conspicuously dry flesh
- pimpled
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moon fungi
- pastel- or brightly-colored
- pimpled
- firm or typical flesh
- often softly rounded
- not fruiting conspicuously from a living non-fungal host
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not a mushroom fruiting conspicuously from a living fungus
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light-colored, gentle, rounded, peppered with "craters" (perithecia) →
~moon-like vibes
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excluded
lichens
- not bulky (ornate or thinly effused)
- not fleshy (tough or papery)
- dry
- perennial
- cool- or dull-colored, especially green
- prominently exposed
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cultures
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intentionally cultivated by humans, e.g. for
- research
- ingestion
- industry
- fun
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