Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821
Details
Nomenclature
Classification
Subordinates
- Lepiota adulterina
- Lepiota adusta
- Lepiota agricola
- Lepiota alba
- Lepiota alopochroa
- Lepiota americana
- Lepiota arenicola
- Lepiota aspera
- Lepiota badhamii
- Lepiota barssii
- Lepiota bohemica
- Lepiota booloola
- Lepiota boudieri
- Lepiota brebissonii
- Lepiota bresadolae
- Lepiota brunnea
- Lepiota calcarata
- Lepiota castanea
- Lepiota clypeolaria
- Lepiota clypeolaria
- Lepiota cristata
- Lepiota decorata
- Lepiota denudata
- Lepiota discolorata
- Lepiota echinacea
- Lepiota echinella
- Lepiota erminea
- Lepiota exstructa
- Lepiota grangei
- Lepiota haemorrhagica
- Lepiota helveola
- Lepiota hetieri
- Lepiota ianthina
- Lepiota leucothites
- Lepiota magnispora
- Lepiota menieri
- Lepiota mesomorpha
- Lepiota mesomorpha
- Lepiota naucina
- Lepiota nauseosa
- Lepiota ochraceofulva
- Lepiota petasiformis
- Lepiota pseudolilacea
- Lepiota purpurata
- Lepiota rhacodes
- Lepiota rufipes
- Lepiota serrulata
- Lepiota sp. 'Jolies Bush (PDD 96197)'
- Lepiota sp. 'Mt Lyford (PDD 113860)'
- Lepiota sp. 'Papaitonga (PDD 113696)'
- Lepiota sp. 'Tongariro (PDD 80848)'
- Lepiota sp. 'Totaranui (PDD 105723)'
- Lepiota subincarnata
- Lepiota thrombophora
Associations
Descriptions
Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821
Small, delicate, thin-fleshed mushrooms, always on soil, cap dry, with brown scale-like patches, white flesh becoming exposed as these break apart as the caps expand. Always with a ring on the narrow stalk, the ring sometimes becoming loose and detached. Gills white, free. Spore print white.
Although common in New Zealand forests, the genus is very poorly understood for New Zealand. Saprobes. Many species are poisonous.
Leucocoprinus is similar in structure and also has a detaching ring on the stalk, but this tropical genus is bright yellow and typically found in pot plants on very rich soil.
Saprobes on soil. A common and widespread genus in New Zealand, but poorly known taxonomically. Small, delicate mushrooms, the cap often pointed and with coarse, brown scales, the gills white and free, the stipe with a prominent ring.
Many species poisonous.
About 15 species have been reported from New Zealand, only those listed below have descriptions or images available from NZFungi.
Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821
Pileus regular, usually scaly; gills free from the stem, white or tinted; stem central, bearing a ring; spores white or dingy.
Free gills and a ring on the stem are the important features of the present genus. In some species the ring disappears soon after the pileus expands. On the ground.