Rhodocybe sect. Rhodocybe

Vizzini, Alfredo, Picillo, Bernardo, Ercole, Enrico, Vila, Jordi & Contu, Marco, 2016, Rhodocybe formosa (Agaricales, Entolomataceae): new collections, molecular data and synonymy, and Rhodocybe griseonigrella comb. nov., Phytotaxa 255 (1), pp. 34-46 : 43-44

Key to the European species of Rhodocybe sect. Rhodocybe

1. Pileipellis with numerous globose elements................. R. praesidentialis Consiglio, Contu, M. Roy, Selosse & Vizzini (2007: 26)

‒ Pileipellis consisting only of cylindrical hyphae without globose or inflated elements....................................................................2

2. Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid..............................................................................................................................................3

‒ Spores ellipsoid to amygdaliform.......................................................................................................................................................4

3. Spores (5‒)5.5‒6.5(‒7.6) × (4.2‒)4.5‒5.5(‒6) μm, Q = 1.16‒1.38, pileus up to 55 mm broad, context unchanging when bruised, lamellae medium crowded, grey to brown .......................................................................................... R. formosa (= R. minutispora )

‒ Spores 5.7‒8 × 4.5‒5.9 μm, Q = 1.1‒1.5, pileus up to 25 mm broad, context darkening to blackish when old or bruised, lamellae quite distant, dark grey ............................................................................................................................................. R. griseonigrella

4. Light blue to violaceous tinges present at least at stipe apex and well-developed cylindrical caulocystidia ................. R. ardosiaca

‒ Stipe without violaceous tinges and caulocystidia.............................................................................................................................5

5. Basidiomes slender, fragile, conical-convex pileus with argillaceous to pale brown tinges (white in var. virgineopusilla ), unpleasant smell and taste (like rotten fish), large spores, 7.5‒10 × 4.5‒5.5 μm....................................................................... R. obtusatula

‒ Basidiomes less fragile, with different smell and smaller spores.......................................................................................................6

6. Pileus at first covered with abundant white pruina (as a micaceous sheen).......................................................................................7

‒ Pileus without white pruina................................................................................................................................................................9

7. Pileus 6–18 mm broad, conico-convex to conical, with a broad obtuse umbo, bright yellow-brown, dark brown at centre, not cracked, lamellae yellow-brown...................................... Clitopilus djellouliae Contu, Vizzini, P. Roux & Guy Garcia (2011: 158)

‒ Pileus 4–30 mm broad, convex, soon convex-depressed, without umbo, dark grey, greysh- brown, minutely cracked, lamellae grey.....................................................................................................................................................................................................8

8. Pseudocystidia abundant, 40–70 × 6–8 μm......................................................................................................................... R. caelata

‒ Pseudocystidia rare, 30–40 × 3–4 μm .................................................................................................................................... R. dubia

9. Pileus blackish brown, spores, 6.8‒9 × (5.7‒)6.2‒7.5 μm and large basidia, 32‒44 × 9.5‒13.5 μm, pseudocystidia up to 13 μm wide, filled with colourless contents in KOH, and growth in dwarf shrubs in tundra .............................................. R. finnmarchiae

‒ Not as above.....................................................................................................................................................................................10

10. Spores oblong to subfusiform, Q = 1.7‒2.1............................................ Clitopilus marinaensis Vila, Contu & F. Caball. (2009: 9) .

‒ Spores ellipsoid or amygdaliform, Q ≤ 1.7......................................................................................................................................11

11. Pileus 10‒15 mm broad, spores ellipsoid, pseudocystidia non-septate with strongly dextrinoid contents..................... R. oss-emeri

‒ Pileus 20‒30 mm broad, spores amygdaliform, rare uniseptate pseudocystidia present, pseudocystidia with only weakly dextrinoid contents.............................................................................................................................................................................. R. brunnea