Limacella

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Limacella
Limacella illinita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Limacella
Earle
Type species
Limacella delicata
(Fr.) Earle
Genus

See text.

Limacella is a genus of about 20 species of fungi in the Amanitaceae family in order Agaricales.[1] Some of the species have been classified as members of genus Lepiota.

In some older classification schemes, Limacella has alternatively been placed in family Pluteaceae.

Species

  • Limacella delicata, (Fries) Earle
  • Limacella glioderma
  • Limacella guttata, (Persoon) Konrad and Maubl., Also known as Limacella lenticularis.
  • Limacella illinita, (Fries) Murrill
  • Limacella kauffmanii
  • Limacella furnacea
  • Limacella solidipes, Ringed Limacella, (Pk.) H.V.Smith.
  • Limacella subfurnacea
  • Limacella taiwanensis
  • Limacella vinosorubescens

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th ed. Wallingford: CABI. pp. 382–83. ISBN 0-85199-826-7. 

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