STUDIES IN COPRINUS .3. COPRINUS SECTION VELIFORMES - SUBDIVISION ANDREVISION OF SUBSECTION NIVEI EMEND

Coprinus section Veliformes is defined and delimited to comprise four subsections: subsection Micacei, subsection Damestici, subsection Nive i, and subsection Narcotici, subsection nov. A key to the subsections is given. Subsection Nivei is emended, including also most taxa of sub section Flocculosi Citerin. A key is given to all species known from t he Netherlands, or to be expected in the Netherlands on account of rec ords from neighbouring countries. Three new species are described, viz . Coprinus nemoralis, C. idae and C. pseudoniveus. A neotype has been selected for Coprinus poliomallus Romagn. The following species are fu lly described: C. bellulus, C. candidatus, C. cardiasporus, C. conioph orus, C. cordisporus, C. cortinatus, C. cothurnatus, C. ephemeroides, C. idae, C. iocularis, C. nemoralis, C. niveus, C. pachyspermus, C. pa touillardii, C. pseudoniveus, C. pilosotomentosus, C. poliomallus, C. pseudocortinatus, C. ramosocystidiatus and C. utrifer.