Key Identification Features
- The cap centre typically has several darker shades, and younger specimens are often darker.
- There is no distinctive smell or taste, and the spore print is white.
- Its specific epithet biformis refers to the two distinct cap shapes Peck observed: the cap can be either bell-shaped (campanulate) or flattened.
- Key identifying features of the jack-o'-lantern mushroom include true, sharp, decurrent, non-forking gills.
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