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Identified by:collected by:
Key characters used to confirm species (or genus)
Habitat:lat: long:
Location (include county):
date of collection:
Species:
Class collection PMB113 California mushrooms F2007
Herbariu
m label
-Drying - at 40 degrees Celsius
-Mold and insects are main enemies of driedmaterial
-Keep material at low temperature andhumidity
Collect & handle with care
Make notes, both in the field and at home
Do not mix collections
Dry
Keep dried collections in a cool & dryplace
Reasons that keys do not work:
Species is not in it, because it is new to the area
Species is not in it, because author does not care for thiskind of species
Key characters are absent in your material
Key characters are too imaginative, and do not matchthe reality
Alternatives are not exclusive (cap green vs stipe red)
The questions are long, have AND or OR in them
Multiple choice key, with non-matching choices
From: Bessette et al., 1997. Mushrooms of Northeastern North America.
http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/Russula/BioloMICSID.aspx
Polyphasic Russula identification keyon line
http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/Russula/BioloMICSID.aspx