Macrolepiota

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Macrolepiota

Conservation status
Secure
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Homobasidiomycetes
Subclass: Homobasidiomycetidae
Order: Agaricales
Family: Lepiotaceae
Genus: Macrolepiota
(Scop. : Fr.) Sing.

Macrolepiota is a genus of white spored gilled mushrooms of the family Agaricaceae. The best known member is the parasol mushroom (M. procera).

The generic status of Macrolepiota is not unanimously held as some current books still leave the members of Macrolepiota in Lepiota.[1]

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ Phillips R (1991). Mushrooms of North America. Little, Brown & Co.. ISBN. 
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