MycoKey : the genus Lepiota

Generic short diagnoses: Mostly fairly thin-fleshed, more or less squamulose, white-spored, saprobic agarics with free, crowded lamellae; stipe often annulate or girdled and spores mostly dextrinoid, in some bullet-shaped.


Species example:


Lepiota clypeolaria - DK: flosset parasolhat UK: Shield Dapperling
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe
Sweden, TL-4190

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