The spore colour is dark brown to black.

However recent molecular research has shown some interesting relationships, with some fungi of disparate spore colours showing close relations.

It is white to cream and the spore color is white, cream, or yellowish.

In deposit, the spore color is white.

The spore color is yellow-brown to light chestnut, with the base generally the same color.

The spore color is white, cream, or yellowish.

By modifying a gene coding for spore color, the biologist can study crossing over and other phenomena.

The spore colour is white, cream or yellowish; they are elliptical and smooth.

In mass, the spore color is white.

Other groups further contain two superclades, which are morphologically definable by spore colour.