Cross-section of a Coprinus mushroom gill, showing basidia (magnified 400×)
Coprinus is a small genus of mushroom-forming fungi consisting of Coprinus comatus—the 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).
Molecular phylogenetic investigation found that Coprinus comatus was only a distant relative of the other members of Coprinus, and was closer to genera in the Agaricaceae. Since Coprinus comatus is the type species of Coprinus, only that species and its close relatives C. sterquilinus and C. spadiceisporus retained the name of the genus.[2]
The majority of species of Coprinus were therefore reclassified into three genera placed in Psathyrellaceae: Coprinellus, Coprinopsis, and Parasola.[2]Coprinus and these segregate genera are now referred to collectively as coprinoid fungi.
Coprinus is New Latin, from the Greek koprinos, "of dung", in reference to the habitat of some of the species.[3]
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^ abRedhead SA, Vilgalys R, Moncalvo J-M, Johnson J, Hopple JS Jr (2001). "Coprinus Pers. and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato". Taxon. 50 (1): 203–241. doi:10.2307/1224525. JSTOR 1224525.
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Coprinus is a small genus of mushroom-forming fungi consisting of Coprinus comatus—the shaggy ink cap (British) or shaggy mane (American)—and several of...
Young Coprinus comatus Cross section of young mushroom Old and young individuals Late stage deliquescence of Coprinus comatus mushrooms Coprinus comatus...
spore discharge into the section Coprinus of the genus Agaricus. Elias Magnus Fries later raised Persoon's section Coprinus to genus rank in his Epicrisis...
America. Previously known as Coprinus atramentarius, it is the second best known ink cap and previous member of the genus Coprinus after C. comatus. It is...
as Coprinus auricomus. It was transferred to Parasola in 2001 when molecular phylogenetics was used to sort the coprinoid genera (i.e., Coprinus and...
Coprinellus disseminatus, formerly known as Coprinus disseminatus and commonly known as the fairy inkcap, fairy bonnet, or trooping crumble cap, is a species...
R, Moncalvo J-M, Johnson J, Hopple JS Jr (2001). "Coprinus Persoon and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato". Taxon. 50 (1): 203–41. doi:10...
manure heaps, particularly on horse manure. Coprinus sterquilinus is closely related to the shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus). Both share the characteristic...
Coprinus calyptratus is a species of fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is commonly known as the star-capped coprinus. Coprinus calyptratus was classified...
Vilgalys R, Moncalvo J-M, Johnson J, Hopple JS Jr (2001). "Coprinus Pers. and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato". Taxon. 50 (1): 203–241. doi:10...
(2000). "Life history and developmental processes in the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 64 (2): 316–53....
found in the United States, in areas east of the Great Plains. Coprinus ebulbosus and Coprinus quadrifidus are names assigned by Charles Horton Peck to what...
species of Coprinus, Coprinus comatus, and a few other species, were found to be more closely related to Agaricaceae. The former genus Coprinus was split...
classified as Coprinus species. Karsten stopped using the Coprinopsis genus name by 1889 and in 1887 it was considered a subgenus of Coprinus by Narcisse...
Frederick Gray transferred it to Coprinus in his 1821 work A Natural Arrangement of British Plants. In 2001, the genus Coprinus was reorganized and this species...
reclassified as Coprinus niveus by the Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries. In 2001 phylogentic analysis restructured the Coprinus genus and it was...
Vilgalys R, Moncalvo J-M, Johnson J, Hopple JS Jr (2001). "Coprinus Pers. and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato". Taxon. 50 (1): 203–241. doi:10...
acuminata was first described as Coprinus acuminatus in 1969 and later as Coprinopsis acuminata. P.D. Orton (1969). "Coprinus acuminatus (Romagn.)". Notes...
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mushrooms in the genera Coprinopsis. When combined with alcohol, it causes "Coprinus syndrome".: 284 It inhibits the enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, which...
R, Moncalvo J-M, Johnson J, Hopple JS Jr (2001). "Coprinus Persoon and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato". Taxon. 50 (1): 203–241. doi:10...
to Coprinus a couple of years later in his Flore Mycologique de la France. In 1936, Robert Kühner segregated the genus Pseudocoprinus from Coprinus, including...
Vilgalys R, Moncalvo J-M, Johnson J, Hopple JS Jr (2001). "Coprinus Pers. and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato". Taxon. 50 (1): 203–41. doi:10.2307/1224525...
Vilgalys R, Moncalvo J-M, Johnson J, Hopple JS Jr (2001). "Coprinus Pers. and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato". Taxon. 50 (1): 203–241. doi:10...
in severe cases, trouble breathing. Coprinus species, including Coprinopsis atramentaria, contain coprine. Coprinus comatus does not, but it is best to...
were transferred from the once large genus Coprinus. Molecular studies published in 2001 redistributed Coprinus species to Psathyrella, or the segregate...
(Agaricus sylvaticus), the two species of Coprinus or deliquescient mushrooms (Coprinus comatus and Coprinus atramentarius), and the two species of viscid...
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