MycoKey : the genus Macrolepiota

Generic short diagnoses: Very elegant, large, mostly umbonate, fleshy, more or less squamulose, white- or pinkish spored agarics with free lamellae. Stipe ± ornamented, often bulbous; complex loose annulus present; spores with germ pore but overlaid with hyaline cap, thick-walled and dextrinoid.


Species example:


Macrolepiota excoriata - DK: mark-parasolhat
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-03.135

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