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3 species
A genus of about 100 ectomycorrhizal mushrooms with thick, widely spaced, purple to flesh-colored gills and usually spiny white spores. Laccaria bicolor has a sequenced genome, and several species are used as experimental systems for ectomycorrhizal symbiosis.
Cap: often hygrophanous, fading markedly on drying. Gills: thick, distant, waxy-looking, adnate to slightly decurrent, purple to pinkish. Stem: fibrous, tough. Spore print: white. Spores: usually globose to elliptical and spiny.
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