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  • Puducherry Mushrooms
    • Sampling Sites
    • Mushroom Morphology
    • Key to Orders
    • Key to Fungal Families
    • Agaricaceae
  • Literature for mushrooms
  • Species of Agaricaceae
  • Sequence Analysis
  • Plant Physiology
  • Other Plant Groups
  • KMGIPSR Campus Flora

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Identification of mushrooms to genus level using morphological features

Morphological Features

Colour of the Pileus

Colour of the Pileus

Colour of the Pileus

Link to Mushrooms Genera based on colour of the Pileus

Presence of Annulus

Colour of the Pileus

Colour of the Pileus

Presence of Volva

Colour of the Pileus

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Gill attachment

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Gill attachment

Gills absent

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Gill attachment

Genera based on morphological features

Colour of the Pileus/fruiting body

Colour of the Pileus/fruiting body

Colour of the Pileus/fruiting body

  • Reddish brown - Ganoderma, Marasmius
  • White - Agaricus, Marasmiellus, Leucoagaricus, Termitomyces
  • Orange - Agaricus
  • Yellow - Amanita
  • Grey - Volvariella
  • Red - Pycnoporus
  • Reddish brown becoming black - Daldinia, Pisolithus
  • Black with greyish apex - Xylaria
  • Greyish brown - Podaxis

Presence of Annulus

Colour of the Pileus/fruiting body

Colour of the Pileus/fruiting body

  • Agaricus
  • Chlorophyllum
  • Lepiota
  • Leucoagaricus
  • Leucocoprinus
  • Micropsalliota
  • Amanita

Presence of Volva

Colour of the Pileus/fruiting body

Presence of Annulus and Volva

  • Volvariella
  • Amanita


Pseudorrhiza present

  • Termitomyces


Fruiting-body gelatinus

  • Auricularia

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Presence of Annulus and Volva

  • Amanita

Gill attachment

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Gill attachment

  • Adnate - Marasmius
  • Adnexed - Marasmius, Termitomyces 
  • Decurrent - Lentinus
  • Free - Agaricus, Chlorophyllum, Leucocoprinus, Leucoagaricus, Lepiota, Micropsalliota, Amanita, Volvariella

Gills absent

Presence of Annulus and Volva

Gill attachment

  • Albatrellus
  • Daldinia
  • Ganoderma
  • Pisolithus
  • Pycnoporus
  • Xylaria 

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 Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Post Graduate Studies, Puducherry 605008.

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