Three identification units in Lyophyllum are keyed out separately.

• Lyophyllum anthracophilum group has fruit-bodies that occur after fire and do not grow in connate clusters.

• Lyophyllum tylicolor group has rough spores.

• Lyophyllum (other) covers the remaining Australian species.

Lyophyllum P.Karst., Acta Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 2: 3, 29 (1881).

Tephrocybe Donk.