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Other Agaricaceae genera

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Agaricaceae

Agaricaceae (Chevallier 1826), type genus Agaricus, a family of gilled and puffball-like mushroom fungi in Agaricales suborder Agaricineae; about 60 genera including Agaricus, Lepiota, Chlorophyllum, and Leucoagaricus; includes the cultivated button mushroom.

Chlorophyllum molybdites

Chlorophyllum molybdites, the green-spored parasol or false parasol (vomiter), is a poisonous Agaricaceae lawn mushroom, the most common cause of mushroom poisoning in the United States, identified by its green spore print and gills.

Lepiota

Lepiota is a genus of about 400 small, scaly-capped gilled mushrooms known as dapperlings, in the family Agaricaceae, distributed worldwide, with some species deadly poisonous.

Lepiota brunneoincarnata

Lepiota brunneoincarnata, the deadly dapperling, is a small Agaricaceae mushroom containing amatoxins like the deathcap; it causes fatal liver failure, fruits in grassy European and Asian habitats, and is often mistaken for edible lookalikes.

Lepiota cristata

Lepiota cristata, the stinking dapperling, is a small toxic Agaricaceae mushroom with a scaly pale cap, foul odor, and white print of wedge-shaped dextrinoid spores; basionym Agaricus cristatus Bolton 1788.

Lepiotoid Agaricaceae

Lepiotoid Agaricaceae are the mushroom lineages of the family Agaricaceae with white spore prints, free gills, and a stem ring, covering genera historically placed in Lepiota, such as Leucoagaricus, Leucocoprinus, Macrolepiota, and Chlorophyllum.

Leucocoprinus birnbaumii

Leucocoprinus birnbaumii, the flower pot parasol or plantpot dapperling, is a small sulfur-yellow saprotrophic mushroom, the most common mushroom on indoor potting soil; harmless to plants but poisonous if eaten.

List of Lepiota species

Lepiota species list: scaly agaric genus in Agaricaceae, Persoon 1797, with Species Fungorum accepted names, synonyms moved to Echinoderma and Leucocoprinus, and lethal amanitin-containing species like L. subincarnata.

List of Leucoagaricus species

Leucoagaricus (Leucoagaricus/Leucocoprinus) is an Agaricaceae mushroom genus with about 135 species, 347 Species Fungorum records, six sections, and disputed status after Redhead's 2023 merger with Leucocoprinus.

Macrolepiota procera

Macrolepiota procera, the parasol mushroom, is a large edible Agaricaceae fungus with a 10–25 cm scaly cap, movable double ring, snakeskin stipe, and white spore print; its main toxic look-alike is Chlorophyllum molybdites.