Agarics (Gilled Mushrooms)
The agarics are the most common group of mushrooms, consisting of about 60% of the fungi described in these pages. Here we have broken down this large group of mushrooms based on spore print color.
White Spored or Pale Spored Mushrooms
Spore print white to pale-yellow or pale-pink
Genera: Amanita, Armillaria, Camarophyllus, Caulorhiza, Chromosera, Clitocybe, Cystoderma, Flammulina, Gymnopus, Hohenbuehelia, Hygrocybe, Hygrophoropsis, Hygrophorus, Laccaria, Lactarius, Lepiota, Leucoagaricus, Leucocoprinus, Leucopaxillus, Macrocystidia, Macrolepiota, Marasmiellus, Marasmius, Mycena, Omphalotus, Panus, Phyllotopsis, Pleurotus, Rhodocollybia, Russula, Schizophyllum, Strobilurus, Tricholoma, Tricholomopsis, Xeromphalina
Pink Spored or Pinkish-brown Spored Mushrooms
Spore print pink to pinkish-brown
Genera: Entoloma, Pluteus, Volvariella
Brown Spored Mushrooms
Spore print yellowish-brown, rusty brown, clay colored, tobacco brown, earth brown, olive brown, dark brown.
Genera: Agrocybe, Bolbitius, Conocybe, Cortinarius, Crepidotus, Dermocybe, Galerina, Inocybe, Hebeloma, Gymnopilus, Paxillus, Pholiota, Tubaria
Purple-brown Spored Mushrooms
Spore print cocoa brown, purple-brown, dark greyish-brown, violaceous-grey, dark brown.
Genera: Agaricus, Hypholoma, Psilocybe, Stropharia
Black Spored Mushrooms
Spore print black.
Genera: Chroogomphus, Coprinus, Gomphidius, Panaeolus, Psathyrella
White Spored or Pale Spored Mushrooms
Pink Spored or Pinkish-brown Spored Mushrooms
Brown Spored Mushrooms
Purple-brown Spored Mushrooms
Black Spored Mushrooms
