Fungi with colored or dark spores may not reveal their true shades until enough spores have matured and been released to change the origincal color of the gills from white or another pale color to the color of the spores. This is why it is necessary to make spore-prints. Dark-colored spores can be pink to salmon-pink, purple-brown to black, brown, rust-brown, or green depending on the genus and species. Colored-spored fungi are listed in accordance with their spore colors. There are fewer dark-spored gilled mushrooms than light-spored mushrooms. The photo above shows the gills of a Cortinarius.
PINK to SALMON-PINK SPORED
CLITOCYBE_____irina (See LEPISTA),____nuda (See LEPISTA),____odora,(See LEPISTA)____subconnexa (See LEPISTA),
ENTOLOMA____abortivum,____asprellum,____bicolor,____caesiocinctum,____conicum,____formosum,____grande,____griseum,
____luridum,____luteum,____murrayi,____quadratum, ____rhodopolium,____salmoneum, ____serrulatum,____sinuatum,____strictius,____subsinuatum,____umbonatum,____unicolor, ____vernum
LEPISTA (CLITOCYBE)____irina,____nuda,____subconnexa
PLUTEUS____admirabilis,____americanus (salicinus),____atromarginatus,____aurantiorugosus, ____cervinus,_____cervinus var. alba, ____flavofuligineus,____granularis,____leoninus,
____longistriatus,____petasatus,____tomentosulus
VOLVARIELLA (VOLAVARIA)____bombycina,____speciosa
PURPLE-BROWN to BLACK-SPORED
AGARICUS____abruptibulbus,____arvensis (See fissuratus),____bisporus,____bitorquis,____campestris,____crocodilinus, ____fissuratus (arvensis),____haemorrhoidarius,____placomyces, ____silvaticus,____silvicola
CHROOGOMPHUS_____ochraceus____rutilans (See C. ochraceous),____vinicolor
COPRINELLUS (COPRINUS)____disseminatus,____micaceus
COPRINOPSIS (COPRINUS)____atramentaria,____lagopus
GOMPHIDIUS____glutinus,____smithii
HEMISTROPHARIA____albocrenulata
HYPHOLOMA____capnoides,____fasiculare,____lateritium (sublateritium)
LACRYMARIA (Psathyrella)____lacrymabunda
LERATIOMYCES (STROPHARIA)____squamosus (thrausta)
PANAEOLINA (Panaeolus)____foenisecii
PARASOLA____auricoma,____leiocephala,____plicatilis
PSATHYRELLA____candolleana,____conissans____delineata (See TYPHRASA),____hydrophila,____rugocephala (See TYPHRASA)____velutina (See LACRYMARIA lacrymabunda)
STROPHARIA____hardii,____hornemannii,____rugosoannulata
TYPHRASA (Psathyrella____gossypina (delineata, rugocephala)
BROWN-SPORED
AGROCYBE____acericola,____dura,____pediades,____praecox
CONOCYBE____apala (lactea),____filaris,____rugosa (See PHOLIOTINA)
CREPIDOTUS____applanatus,_____calolepis____cinnabarinus,____crocophyllus,____malachius,____mollis, ____stipitatus_____vulgaris
GALERINA____marginata (autumnalis),____palludosa,____stylifera,____tibiicystis
GYMNOPILUS____luteofolius,____luteus,____penetrans,____sapineus,____speciosissimus,_____subspectabilis, ____voitkii
INOCYBE____calamistrata,____fastigiella____geophylla,____histrix or lanuginosa___lilacina,____rimosa (fastigiata),____rimosoides,____tahquamenonemsis, _____tubarioides____unicolor
PHAEOCOLLYBIA____christinae,____jennyae
PHOLIOTA____alnicola,____aurivella,____destruens (See P. populina) ,____flammans,____flavida,____granulosa,_____limonella,_____populina (destruens) ____squarossa, ____squarrosoides
RUSTY-BROWN-SPORED
CORTINARIUS____alboviolaceus,____anomolus,____armillatus,_____atkinsonianus,____azureus, _____balteatocumatilis,____bolaris,____camphoratus,_____caperatus,___cinnamomeus,____claricolor,____collinitis, ____corrugatus,____croceofolius,____distans,____evernius,____flavifolius,____flexipes,____glutinosus,____harrisonii, ____hesleri,____huronensis,____iodes,____lilacinus,____limonius,____luteus,____MacWensis,____malicorius _____marylandensis,____ochropurpurea,____olearioides,____olivaceous_____paleiferus____pholideus, ____privignoides,____pulchrifolius,____purpurescens, ____pyriodorus, ____rubellus,____rubicundulus,____sanguineus,____scaurus,____semisanguineus,____squamulosus, ____subpulcrifolius,______talus,____torvus, ____traganus,____triumphans, ____violaceus,____whitei
TUBERIA____confragosa,____furfuracea
GREEN-SPORED