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Lepiota
Lepiota is a genus of gilled mushrooms in the family Agaricaceae. All Lepiota species are ground-dwelling saprotrophs with a preference for rich, calcareous soils. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are agaricoid with whitish spores, typically with scaly caps and a ring on the stipe. Around 400 species of Lepiota are currently recognized worldwide. Many species are poisonous, some lethally so.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cristatae
sectionCristatae
Lepiota
sectionLepiota
Helveolae
sectionHelveolae
Stenosporae
sectionStenosporae
Lilaceae
sectionLilaceae
Lepiota ignivolvata
speciesLepiota ignivolvata
cat dapperling
speciesLepiota felina
Eriophorae
sectionEriophorae
Dewdrop Dapperling
speciesLepiota fracida
The Princess
speciesLepiota sp. 'nustae'
Lepiota sequoiarum
speciesLepiota sequoiarum
Lepiota pseudolilacea
speciesLepiota pseudolilacea
Lepiota fuliginosa
speciesLepiota fuliginosa
Lepiota trichroma
speciesLepiota trichroma
star dapperling
speciesLepiota brunneolilacea
Lepiota forquignonii
speciesLepiota forquignonii
Lepiota sublaevigata
speciesLepiota sublaevigata
Lepiota fuscosquamea
speciesLepiota fuscosquamea
Fuscovinaceae
sectionFuscovinaceae
Lepiota helveola
speciesLepiota helveola
Lepiota xanthophylla
speciesLepiota xanthophylla
Lepiota ochraceofulva
speciesLepiota ochraceofulva
Lepiota maculans
speciesLepiota maculans
Lepiota rhodorhiza
speciesLepiota rhodorhiza
Lepiota ochraceodisca
speciesLepiota ochraceodisca
Lepiota fusciceps
speciesLepiota fusciceps
Lepiota umbrosa
speciesLepiota umbrosa
Lepiota sp. 'PNW12'
speciesLepiota sp. 'PNW12'
Lepiota parvannulata
speciesLepiota parvannulata
Lepiota calcarata
speciesLepiota calcarata
Lepiota sp. 'IN20'
speciesLepiota sp. 'IN20'
Lepiota aurantioflava
speciesLepiota aurantioflava
Lepiota ianthinosquamosa
speciesLepiota ianthinosquamosa
Lepiota sp. 'helveola-PNW16'
speciesLepiota sp. 'helveola-PNW16'
Lepiota lepida
speciesLepiota lepida
Lepiota nigrescentipes
speciesLepiota nigrescentipes
Lepiota clypeolarioides
speciesLepiota clypeolarioides
Lepiota sp. 'CA15'
speciesLepiota sp. 'CA15'
Lepiota kuehneri
speciesLepiota kuehneri
Lepiota hymenoderma
speciesLepiota hymenoderma
Lepiota subcitrophylla
speciesLepiota subcitrophylla
Lepiota cristatanea
speciesLepiota cristatanea
Lepiota abruptibulba
speciesLepiota abruptibulba
Lepiota sp. 'ID01'
speciesLepiota sp. 'ID01'
Lepiota angustispora
speciesLepiota angustispora
Lepiota rufipes
speciesLepiota rufipes
Lepiota sp. 'IN21'
speciesLepiota sp. 'IN21'
Lepiota adusta
speciesLepiota adusta
Lepiota roseotincta
speciesLepiota roseotincta
Lepiota phaeoderma
speciesLepiota phaeoderma
Lepiota subcristata
speciesLepiota subcristata
Lepiota severiana
speciesLepiota severiana
Lepiota obscura
speciesLepiota obscura
Lepiota sp. 'CA16'
speciesLepiota sp. 'CA16'
Lepiota sp. 'castanea-PNW21'
speciesLepiota sp. 'castanea-PNW21'
Lepiota sp. 'TX03'
speciesLepiota sp. 'TX03'
Lepiota sp. 'NB02'
speciesLepiota sp. 'NB02'
Lepiota cinnamomea
speciesLepiota cinnamomea
Lepiota speciosa
speciesLepiota speciosa
Lepiota sp. 'IN18'
speciesLepiota sp. 'IN18'
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.137
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 3–4
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.156
Histoire des Champignons de la France, Vol 2
Pierre Bulliard · 1791 · p.83
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lepiota in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58695.