Leucoagaricus nympharum

Leucoagaricus nympharum is a species of fungus in the family Agaricaceae.[2][3]

Leucoagaricus nympharum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Leucoagaricus
Species:
L. nympharum
Binomial name
Leucoagaricus nympharum
(Kalchbr.) Bon (1977)
Synonyms[1]

Agaricus nympharum Kalchbr. (1873)
Lepiota nympharum Kalchbr. (1879)
Mastocephalus nympharum Kuntze (1891)
Macrolepiota nympharum Wasser (1985)
Agaricus rhacodes var. puellaris Fr. (1863)
Lepiota puellaris P. Karst. (1879)
Lepiota rhacodes var. puellaris Sacc. (1887)
Lepiota procera var. puellaris Massee (1893)
Lepiota rhacodes subsp. puellaris Sacc. (1897)
Lepiotophyllum rhacodes var. puellaris Locq. (1942)
Leucocoprinus puellaris Locq. (1945)
Macrolepiota puellaris M.M. Moser (1967)

Leucoagaricus nympharum
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex or flat
Hymenium is free
Stipe has a ring
Spore print is white
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is unknown
Leucoagaricus nympharum gills
Gill details

Taxonomy

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Originally classified as Agaricus nympharum by the Hungarian mycologist Károly Kalchbrenner in 1873 and reclassified as Leucoagaricus nympharum by the French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1977.[2]

Description

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Leucoagaricus nympharum is a large white dapperling mushroom with a distinctive scaly cap which resembles that of Chlorophyllum rhacodes only with a smaller, 4-10cm cap and a more starkly white colour. Despite its distinctive appearance it is seldom recorded and little known.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "GSD Species Synonymy: Leucoagaricus nympharum (Kalchbr.) Bon". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  2. ^ a b "Species fungorum - Leucoagaricus nympharum (Kalchbr.) Bon, Docums Mycol. 7(nos 27-28): 19 (1977)". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  3. ^ "Mycobank Database - Leucoagaricus nympharum".
  4. ^ Kibby, Geoffrey (2007-04-01). "Fungal portraits: No. 30: Leucoagaricus nympharum". Field Mycology. 8 (2): 39–40. doi:10.1016/S1468-1641(10)60449-5. ISSN 1468-1641.