genus_lepiota (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *genus Lepiota*:
NOUN	plant	genus Lepiota	agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms

English > *genus Lepiota*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms.
Member of	Lepiotaceae, family Lepiotaceae	A family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk
Members	American parasol, Lepiota americana	An agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base
	Lepiota clypeolaria	An agaric with a ragged stalk and a soft floccose cap
	Lepiota naucina	An agaric with greyish white fruiting body and gills that change from pink to dingy red
	Lepiota rhacodes	An agaric with a large cap with brown scales and a thick stalk
	Lepiota rubrotincta	An agaric with a relatively small pink to red cap and white gills and stalk
	lepiota	Any fungus of the genus Lepiota
	onion stem, Lepiota cepaestipes	A white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base
	parasol mushroom, Lepiota procera	edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores
	poisonous parasol, Lepiota morgani	An agaric regarded as poisonous
Broader	fungus genus	Includes lichen genera
Spanish	genus lepiota, lepiota
Catalan	genus lepiota

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