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Echinoderma

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Echinoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its members were for a long time considered to belong to genus Lepiota and the group was then circumscribed by French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1981 as a subgenus of Cystolepiota before he raised it to generic status in 1991.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomFungi
  2. PhylumBasidiomycota
  3. ClassAgaricomycetes
  4. OrderAgaricales
  5. FamilyAgaricaceae
Observations recorded17,283

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
180
With media
26
Family
Curculionidae
Collections
UAM, TENN-F, FLAS, UC, UCSC, O
Recorded in
United States, Norway, Sweden

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Species
  • See also
  • References

Echinoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its members were for a long time considered to belong to genus Lepiota and the group was then circumscribed by French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1981 as a subgenus of Cystolepiota before he raised it to generic status in 1991.

==General info== This genus belongs to a group of genera allied to Lepiota with a white spore print, free (or almost free) gills, stipe easily separable from the cap and having a partial veil. Amongst the Agaricaceae it is characterized by the white spore powder, cap skin microscopically an epithelium with rounded cells, and a brownish cap and stipe, with brown scales.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Echinoderma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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