Coprinus micaceus / Mica Cap / Common Ink Cap / Glistening Inky Cap / Little Inky

About this Item

Name

Scientific Name: Coprinus micaceus
Genus: Coprinus
Species: micaceus
Common Name: Mica Cap; Common Ink Cap; Glistening Inky Cap; Little Inky

Description

Scale: nat. size
Herbarium Number: 1946

Collection Event Data

Collection Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Collection Date: Aug. 23, 1902

Notes

Notes: Spore print of Coprinus micaceus. Reproduced in Nat. Geogr. Mag., May 1920
Creator: Louis C. C. Krieger
General Information: The content of these records were transcribed from the original handwritten information, and although every attempt was made to do so accurately, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the transcription or the accuracy of the original information.; Common names were obtained from the following sources:; Miller, Orson K. and David F. Farr. An index of the common fungi of North America, synonymy and common names. Vaduz [Liechtenstein]: J. Cramer, 1975. 206 p.; Lincoff, Gary. The National Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1998. 926 p.; Smith, Alexander H. The mushroom hunter's field guide. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, c1980. 316 p.

Technical Details

Collection: University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi
Image Size: 4394 x 5085
File Size: 1 MB
Record: 130
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-130/w100

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Full citation: "Coprinus micaceus; Mica Cap; Common Ink Cap; Glistening Inky Cap; Little Inky." In the digital collection University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-130/w100. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2025.