BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Coprinus Pers., 1797 (inkcaps)
| Notes (MWS) | The Inkcap toadstools are so-called because the black-spored gills, and often the caps too, liquify into an ink-like liquid. However, this has an ecological purpose: many of the species grow on transient substrates (eg dung) often with short-lived fruitbodies. The cap and gills liquify to rapidly dispose of the gill material and allow all the spores to be quickly released into the air. In the dung species the spores often have to survive on nearby grass until eaten by a herbivore. The spores are black because they are protected by thick heavily-pigmented walls. |
Sets of Photographs
These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.
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Date | Vice-county | Country |
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| Coprinus? | Fruitbody | 3 | 3 | 23 Dec 1971 | East Sussex | England | |
| Coprinus | Fruitbody | 2 | 2 | 11 Sep 1982 | South Hampshire | England | |
| Coprinus | Fruitbody | 2 | 2 | 24 May 1974 | Mid-west Yorkshire | England | |
| Coprinus | Fruitbody | 1 | 1 | 3 Jun 2000 | Berks | England |
Subtaxa
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Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Orton, P.D. & Watling, R., 1979 | Coprinaceae: Coprinus |
| Orton, P.D., 1957 | Notes on British Agarics I-5 (Observations on the genus Coprinus) |
| Orton, P.D., 1976 | Notes on British Agarics VI |
| Orton, P.D., 1976 | Notes on British Agarics VI |
| Orton, P.D., 1979 | Notes on British Agarics IV |
| Schafer, D.J., 2010 | Keys to sections of Parasola, Coprinellus, Coprinopsis and Coprinus in Britain |
| Uljé, C.B., 2005 | Genus Coprinus Pers. |
| All about Inkcaps: http://www.grzyby/coprinus-site-Kees-Uljee/cindex.htm | All about Inkcaps |
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 3 general literature references to Coprinus (inkcaps)
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BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 34 feeding and other relationships of Coprinus (inkcaps)
