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Guide to Gilled Mushrooms, the Agarics

Page under construction. The key below will be replaced and currently serves simply to get to the demo guides for mushrooms with free gills.

Key to Families or Subgroups
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1a. Gills not attached to stem or very narrowly attached. Agarics with free gills
1a. Gills attached to stem but not decurrent. Agarics with attached gills
1a. Gills attached broadly to stem, decurrent. Agarics with decurrent gills

All images by Patrick Leacock unless noted.

Key to the Genera of Gilled Mushrooms from the book Mushrooms of Northeastern North America