Character Fact Sheets
The index below lists fact sheets for the 115 characters used in FunKey, which include seven measurement characters and 108 multistate characters (with 376 character states). There are 383 separate fact sheets, covering all the character states of multistate characters and each measurement character.
Information for a particular character is repeated on all fact sheets for character states of that character.
For multistate characters, fact sheets are listed by character name: state name.
A B C D F G H L O P S T V

A

Annulus moveable: no
Annulus moveable: yes
Annulus striate above: no
Annulus striate above: yes
Annulus undersurface: double
Annulus undersurface: single
Associated vegetation: exotic trees or shrubs
Associated vegetation: lawns
Associated vegetation: native trees or shrubs

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B

Basidia polymorphic: no
Basidia polymorphic: yes
Basidium length (micrometres)
Basidium sterigmata number: 1, 2 or 3
Basidium sterigmata number: 4
Basidium sterigmata number: 5 or more
Basidium width (micrometres)

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C

Capped cystidia: absent
Capped cystidia: present
Caulocystidia apex shape: capitate
Caulocystidia apex shape: mucronate or rostrate
Caulocystidia apex shape: not differentiated
Caulocystidia branching: digitate
Caulocystidia branching: diverticulate
Caulocystidia branching: nodulose
Caulocystidia branching: none (unbranched)
Caulocystidia shape: clavate
Caulocystidia shape: cylindrical
Caulocystidia shape: fusiform
Caulocystidia shape: globose to ellipsoid
Caulocystidia shape: lageniform
Caulocystidia: absent
Caulocystidia: present
Cheilocystidia apex shape: capitate
Cheilocystidia apex shape: mucronate or rostrate
Cheilocystidia apex shape: not differentiated
Cheilocystidia branching: digitate
Cheilocystidia branching: diverticulate
Cheilocystidia branching: nodulose
Cheilocystidia branching: none (unbranched)
Cheilocystidia shape: clavate
Cheilocystidia shape: cylindrical
Cheilocystidia shape: fusiform
Cheilocystidia shape: globose to ellipsoid
Cheilocystidia shape: lageniform
Cheilocystidia: absent
Cheilocystidia: present
Chrysocystidia: absent
Chrysocystidia: present
Clamp connections: absent
Clamp connections: present
Criniform stipes: absent
Criniform stipes: present

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D

Distribution: New South Wales
Distribution: Northern Territory
Distribution: Queensland
Distribution: South Australia
Distribution: Tasmania
Distribution: Victoria
Distribution: Western Australia

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F

Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: blue
Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: brown
Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: green
Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: grey or black
Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: no change
Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: orange
Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: red, pink or purple
Fruit-body colour change when cut or bruised: yellow
Fruit-body latex: absent
Fruit-body latex: present
Fruit-body luminous: no
Fruit-body luminous: yes

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G

Gloeosphex cystidia: absent
Gloeosphex cystidia: present
Growth habit: caespitose
Growth habit: connate
Growth habit: gregarious
Growth habit: solitary or scattered

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H

Habitat urban or in gardens: no
Habitat urban or in gardens: yes
Hyphal pegs: absent
Hyphal pegs: present

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L

Lamellae attachment: adnate
Lamellae attachment: adnexed
Lamellae attachment: decurrent
Lamellae attachment: free
Lamellae attachment: remote
Lamellae attachment: sinuate or notched
Lamellae attachment: subdecurrent or with decurrent tooth
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): black
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): blue
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): brown
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): green
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): grey
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): orange
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): pale
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): purple
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): red or pink
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): white
Lamellae colour (mature, side-on): yellow
Lamellae deliquescent: no
Lamellae deliquescent: yes
Lamellae edge colour: darker than face
Lamellae edge colour: paler than face
Lamellae edge colour: same as face
Lamellae edge split: no
Lamellae edge split: yes
Lamellae edge texture: even or wavy
Lamellae edge texture: serrate, crenate or fimbriate
Lamellae edge with gelatinous thread: no
Lamellae edge with gelatinous thread: yes
Lamellae face mottled: no
Lamellae face mottled: yes
Lamellae forked: no
Lamellae forked: yes
Lamellae intervenose: markedly intervenose
Lamellae intervenose: not or slightly intervenose
Lamellae spacing: close to subdistant
Lamellae spacing: crowded
Lamellae spacing: distant
Lamellae thickness: thick
Lamellae thickness: thin
Lamellae with lamellulae: no
Lamellae with lamellulae: yes
Lamellar trama (dextrinoid): no
Lamellar trama (dextrinoid): yes
Lamellar trama (direction): descending
Lamellar trama (direction): radiate
Lamellar trama (pattern): bilateral
Lamellar trama (pattern): interwoven
Lamellar trama (pattern): inverse
Lamellar trama (pattern): regular

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O

Odour: chemical
Odour: curry or spice
Odour: farinaceous
Odour: garlic
Odour: not distinctive or mushroomy
Odour: rubber or burnt hair
Odour: seminal
Odour: sour, rancid or unpleasant
Odour: sweet, perfumed or fruity
Odour: vegetable or herbaceous

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P

Partial veil remains: membranous annulus
Partial veil remains: none
Partial veil remains: ring zone
Partial veil when young: absent
Partial veil when young: arachnoid (cortina)
Partial veil when young: membranous
Partial veil when young: slimy
Pileipellis hypoderm or pileus trama gelatinised: no
Pileipellis hypoderm or pileus trama gelatinised: yes
Pileipellis hypoderm: absent or hyphae elongate
Pileipellis hypoderm: cellular to subcellular
Pileipellis structure: cutis
Pileipellis structure: epithelium
Pileipellis structure: hymeniderm
Pileipellis structure: trichoderm
Pileipellis surface hyphae gelatinised: no
Pileipellis surface hyphae gelatinised: yes
Pileipellis surface hyphae pigment: encrusting
Pileipellis surface hyphae pigment: intracellular or membrane
Pileipellis surface hyphae pigment: no
Pileipellis terminal elements (shape): clavate or fusiform
Pileipellis terminal elements (shape): cylindrical or subclavate
Pileipellis terminal elements (shape): globose to ellipsoid
Pileipellis terminal elements (surface): nodulose to diverticulate
Pileipellis terminal elements (surface): smooth
Pileocystidia apex shape: capitate
Pileocystidia apex shape: mucronate or rostrate
Pileocystidia apex shape: not differentiated
Pileocystidia branching: digitate
Pileocystidia branching: diverticulate
Pileocystidia branching: nodulose
Pileocystidia branching: none (unbranched)
Pileocystidia shape: clavate
Pileocystidia shape: cylindrical
Pileocystidia shape: fusiform
Pileocystidia shape: globose to ellipsoid
Pileocystidia shape: lageniform
Pileocystidia thick-walled: no
Pileocystidia thick-walled: yes
Pileocystidia: absent
Pileocystidia: present
Pileus centre shape: broadly umbonate
Pileus centre shape: deeply depressed
Pileus centre shape: papillate
Pileus centre shape: plane or rounded
Pileus centre shape: shallowly depressed
Pileus colour: black
Pileus colour: blue
Pileus colour: brown
Pileus colour: green
Pileus colour: grey
Pileus colour: orange
Pileus colour: pale
Pileus colour: purple
Pileus colour: red or pink
Pileus colour: white
Pileus colour: yellow
Pileus concentric zonation: absent
Pileus concentric zonation: present
Pileus consistency: fleshy
Pileus consistency: fragile
Pileus consistency: rubbery, leathery or papery
Pileus consistency: woody
Pileus diameter (mm)
Pileus hygrophanous: no
Pileus hygrophanous: yes
Pileus KOH reaction: black
Pileus KOH reaction: colour change
Pileus KOH reaction: no colour change
Pileus margin appendiculate: no
Pileus margin appendiculate: yes
Pileus margin grooved, ribbed or pleated: no (margin smooth)
Pileus margin grooved, ribbed or pleated: yes
Pileus overall shape: conical
Pileus overall shape: cylindrical to parabolic
Pileus overall shape: infundibuliform
Pileus overall shape: plane
Pileus overall shape: rounded
Pileus splitting through lamellae trama: no
Pileus splitting through lamellae trama: yes
Pileus surface (cracks, pits or wrinkles): areolate
Pileus surface (cracks, pits or wrinkles): not cracked, pitted or wrinkled
Pileus surface (cracks, pits or wrinkles): pitted or with depressed spots
Pileus surface (cracks, pits or wrinkles): rimose
Pileus surface (cracks, pits or wrinkles): rugulose to rivulose
Pileus surface (cracks, pits or wrinkles): wrinkled-reticulate
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): coarsely hairy
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): finely hairy
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): glabrous
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): pruinose to granular
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): with fine to coarse scales
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): with one or a few large patches
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): with pyramidal warts
Pileus surface (hairs or scales): with radial, appressed fibrils
Pileus surface viscidity: dry or moist
Pileus surface viscidity: glutinous
Pileus surface viscidity: viscid
Pileus trama (hyphae thickness): thick-walled
Pileus trama (hyphae thickness): thin-walled
Pileus trama (hyphal system): dimitic or trimitic
Pileus trama (hyphal system): monomitic
Pileus trama (secondary hyphae): skeletal
Pileus trama (secondary hyphae): skeleto-ligative or binding
Pileus trama (swollen elements): absent
Pileus trama (swollen elements): nodulose
Pileus trama (swollen elements): smooth
Pileus translucent-striate: no
Pileus translucent-striate: yes
Pleurocystidia apex shape: capitate
Pleurocystidia apex shape: mucronate or rostrate
Pleurocystidia apex shape: not differentiated
Pleurocystidia branching: digitate
Pleurocystidia branching: diverticulate
Pleurocystidia branching: nodulose
Pleurocystidia branching: none (unbranched)
Pleurocystidia shape: clavate
Pleurocystidia shape: cylindrical
Pleurocystidia shape: fusiform
Pleurocystidia shape: globose to ellipsoid
Pleurocystidia shape: lageniform
Pleurocystidia: absent
Pleurocystidia: present

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S

Sclerotium: absent
Sclerotium: pseudosclerotium
Sclerotium: sclerotium
Spore colour (microscope): black
Spore colour (microscope): brown
Spore colour (microscope): hyaline
Spore colour (microscope): orange- to red-brown
Spore colour (microscope): pale
Spore colour (microscope): pink, purple, grey or green
Spore colour (microscope): yellow-brown
Spore germ pore: absent
Spore germ pore: broad
Spore germ pore: narrow
Spore length (micrometres)
Spore ornamentation height: less than 1 micrometre
Spore ornamentation height: more than 1 micrometre
Spore ornamentation: reticulate
Spore ornamentation: smooth
Spore ornamentation: spinose
Spore ornamentation: warty
Spore outline (constricted): no
Spore outline (constricted): yes
Spore outline (end): angular
Spore outline (end): circular
Spore outline (end): elliptical
Spore outline (end): nodulose
Spore outline (side and face): amygdaliform
Spore outline (side and face): angular-hexagonal
Spore outline (side and face): angular-other
Spore outline (side and face): limoniform
Spore outline (side and face): nodulose
Spore outline (side and face): ovoid to pyriform
Spore outline (side and face): phaseoliform to allantoid
Spore outline (side and face): symmetrically rounded
Spore perispore: absent
Spore perispore: present
Spore plage: absent
Spore plage: present
Spore print colour: black
Spore print colour: clay brown
Spore print colour: cream to yellow
Spore print colour: dark brown
Spore print colour: lilac to lilac grey
Spore print colour: olive to green
Spore print colour: pale pink
Spore print colour: pinkish brown
Spore print colour: purple brown
Spore print colour: rusty to ochre brown
Spore print colour: white
Spore reaction (Melzer's Reagent): amyloid
Spore reaction (Melzer's Reagent): dextrinoid
Spore reaction (Melzer's Reagent): non-amyloid
Spore septate: no
Spore septate: yes
Spore shape (ratio length/width): bacilliform (>3.00)
Spore shape (ratio length/width): broadly ellipsoid (1.15-1.30)
Spore shape (ratio length/width): cylindrical (2.00-3.00)
Spore shape (ratio length/width): ellipsoid (1.30-1.60)
Spore shape (ratio length/width): elongate (1.60-2.00)
Spore shape (ratio length/width): globose (0.95-1.05)
Spore shape (ratio length/width): subglobose (1.05-1.15)
Spore wall thickness: not or slightly thick-walled
Spore wall thickness: thick-walled
Spore width (micrometres)
Stipe basal tomentum colour: brown
Stipe basal tomentum colour: red, pink or purple
Stipe basal tomentum colour: white, grey or pale
Stipe basal tomentum colour: yellow or orange
Stipe base black rhizomorphs: absent
Stipe base black rhizomorphs: present
Stipe base shape: basal disc
Stipe base shape: bulbous
Stipe base shape: equal
Stipe base shape: tapering
Stipe colour: black
Stipe colour: blue
Stipe colour: brown
Stipe colour: green
Stipe colour: grey
Stipe colour: orange
Stipe colour: pale
Stipe colour: purple
Stipe colour: red or pink
Stipe colour: white
Stipe colour: yellow
Stipe consistency: chalky
Stipe consistency: fleshy, fibrillose, cartilaginous or rubbery
Stipe consistency: horsehair
Stipe consistency: woody or leathery
Stipe diameter (middle) (mm)
Stipe length (mm)
Stipe overall shape: equal (cylindrical)
Stipe overall shape: tapering downwards
Stipe overall shape: tapering upwards (clavate)
Stipe overall shape: ventricose (swollen in middle)
Stipe position: absent (sessile)
Stipe position: apical (pseudostipe)
Stipe position: central
Stipe position: excentric
Stipe position: lateral
Stipe radicating (pseudorhiza): no
Stipe radicating (pseudorhiza): yes
Stipe surface texture: belts of tissue
Stipe surface texture: lacunose
Stipe surface texture: longitudinally fibrillose
Stipe surface texture: pruinose to granular
Stipe surface texture: smooth
Stipe surface texture: squamulose
Stipe surface texture: velvety to hispid
Stipe trama (sarcodimitic tissue): absent
Stipe trama (sarcodimitic tissue): present
Stipe viscidity: dry or moist
Stipe viscidity: glutinous
Stipe viscidity: viscid
Substrate: bryophytes
Substrate: dung
Substrate: fungus
Substrate: litter or mulch
Substrate: soil or ground
Substrate: termite mound
Substrate: vertebrate animal carcasses
Substrate: wood

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T

Thick-walled cystidia: absent
Thick-walled cystidia: present

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V

Volva: absent
Volva: saccate or a free rim
Volva: scaly, ridged or zoned

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