British fungi - Keys

The genus Phellodon

1	Stipe black, pileus some shade of 'black'	2
	Stipe and pileus some shade of brown	3
2(1)	Cap zoned with a white edge, centre commencing brown and becoming brown-black; pileoli usually fused, not overlapping; with pine, spruce or birch	melaleucus
	Cap with sharply defined white edge, centre with blue-black silky tomentum without shades of brown; pileoli usually overlapping; with oak in the south, pine or spruce in the north	niger
3(1)	Multiple, zoned pileoli, usually fused; with pine or spruce	tomentosum
	Cap buff coloured, greying with age, not or only slightly zoned, stipe tomentose; with broad-leaf trees	confluens

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