Pink Spored     Suborder

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Diagnosis

• Spores pink or reddish

Narrow down your identification:

• Terrestrial (occasionally on rotting wood on the ground)
  
• Gills attached (notched, adnate, or subdecurrent), sometimes almost free in small mushrooms

• Gills free
  
• Often growing on wood

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