Botany: Fungus. Hongos. Funji: Coprinus - Part 1

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The genus Coprinus (clic here Wiki) is a small genus of mushrooms consisting of Coprinus comatus (the shaggy mane) 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 would create gave these species their common name "inky cap".) 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.^[1]

The majority of species of Coprinus were therefore reclassified into the genera Coprinellus, Coprinopsis, and Parasola.^[1] Coprinus and these segregate genera are now referred to collectively as coprinoid fungi.

Coprinus means living on dung.

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El género Coprinus agrupa a hongos Agaricales que forman setas con lamelas que se autodigieren como método para dispersar las basidiosporas. Si bien en clasificaciones antiguas poseía multitud de especies, el análisis filogenético condujo a la separación de la especie C. comatus, de hecho la especie tipo, de las otras especies del género: tanto fue así, que algunas de éstas fueron reclasificadas en otros taxones; no obstante, C. sterquilinus y C. spadiceisporus permanecen en él.^[1] El resto de las especies, por tanto, fueron trasladadas a los géneros Coprinellus, Coprinopsis, y Parasola; a los representantes de estos tres taxones y a Coprinus se les denomina comúnmente «hongos coprinoides».


Agrego, son Coprinus por Copro: estiércol.