A monograph on the genus Galerina Earle / by Alexander H. Smith and Rolf Singer.

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The Genus Galerina Earle

7. Typically associated with mosses or clearly lignocolous --- -- 10
8. Stipe with a well defined annular zone of buff fibrils and a densely
pruinose apex ----------- ------------- 12. G. anelligera
8. Veil thin and scarcely ever leaving an annular zone --- —----- 9
9. Veil buff colored; stipe not appreciably darker below; growing on black
muck under Thuja ----------------------- 13. G. psathyrelloides
9. Veil white; stipe darker below; on needle carpets under Picea and Abies
14. G.acicola
10. Typically on Sphagnum; stipe usually more than 50 mm long - 11
10. Typically on other mosses; stipe shorter than in above choice - - 15
11. Veil well developed, leaving a fibrillose annulus and at times patches
and zones beneath the annulus ------------- 12
11. Veil rudimentary to absent --------- -------------- 13
12. Pleurocystidia present; spores 8-10 X 5.5-7 j; lacking zones and
patches of veil remnants below annulus — see G. macquariensis (141)
12. Pleurocystidia absent; spores 9-12 X 6-7.5,j; stipe with zones and
patches of veil remnants as in G. paludosa (PI. ) - - 15. G. boliviana
13. Taste farinaceous; veil none ---------------------- 17. G.farinacea
13. Not with above combination of characters - -------- 14
14. Pileus bright orange brown; stipe 20-50 mm long; occurring in
cloud forest in Brazil ----------- 16. G.nubigena
14. Pileus tawny; stipe 50-120 mm; occurring in cold northern Sphagnum bogs -----------------------------— 18. G. sphagnicola
15. Veil present on young carpophores --- —---------- 16
15. Veil lacking at all stages --- —---------------- ------ 19
16. Cheilocystidia subacute; fibrillose annular zone present on stipe;
carpophore with aspect of Galerina unicolor ------ 19. G. payettensis
16. Cheilocystidia obtuse to capitate 17
17. Stipe dark reddish brown below and over all in age; cob-webby veil
covering button stages ------------------------- 20. G. sahleri
17. Notasabove ---------- ------------------------ 18
18. Stipe bulbillose at base; taste farinaceous -- 21. G. calyptrata
18. Stipe typically equal or nearly so; taste mild -- - 22. G. cerina
19. Pleurocystidia scattered, clavate to vesiculose or resembling the cheilocystidia -- ----- ------------ 23. G.filiformis
19. Pleurocystidia absent ----------------------------------- 20
20. Spores 8-10(11) X 5-6.5 -----------------------— 21
20. Spores 9-12 X 5.5-7 t or larger - ----------- 22
21. Lamellae typically olive-tinged when young; many cheilocystidia pale
fulvous (at least near base) in KOH --- —--- 24. G. austrocalyptrata
21. Lamellae never olivaceous and cheilocystidia hyaline in KOH ---
------------------------------— 25. G.fallax
22. Stipe dark yellow-brown below, nearly pallid above; spores 11-14
X 6.5-8 -------------- 26a. G. evelata var.fulvipes
22. Stipe more or less honey color over all though base may be slightly
darker ------------------— 23