Definition of Genus Lepiota

1. Noun. Agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lepiota

genus Lens
genus Lentinus
genus Leonotis
genus Leontideus
genus Leontocebus
genus Leontodon
genus Leontopodium
genus Leonurus
genus Lepas
genus Lepechinia
genus Lepidium
genus Lepidobotrys
genus Lepidochelys
genus Lepidocybium
genus Lepidothamnus
genus Lepiota (current term)
genus Lepisma
genus Lepisosteus
genus Lepomis
genus Leptarrhena
genus Leptinotarsa
genus Leptodactylus
genus Leptoglossus
genus Leptopteris
genus Leptoptilus
genus Leptospira
genus Leptotyphlops
genus Lepus
genus Lespedeza
genus Lesquerella

Literary usage of Genus Lepiota

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1904)
"genus Lepiota (SEE PLATE FAC.NG PAGE 64) The members of this genus have the gills free from the stem, and have no wrapper remains at the base of the stem. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... genus Lepiota, with an annulus on the stem and the gills usually free from the, stem, contains several edible species. Lepiota procera, the Parasol ..."

3. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"LEPIOTA Fr. The genus Lepiota lacks a volva, but the veil is present forming a ring on the stem. The genus is closely related to Amanita, from which it ..."

4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"The fleshy Fungi, as usual, are often identical with European forms, but there i many, especially of the sub-genus Lepiota, which are *Agaricus ..."

5. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"The fleshy Fungi, as is usual, are often identical with European forms, but there are many, especially of the sub-genus Lepiota, which are distinct. ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Closely related to the genus Amanita there are field mushrooms of the genus Lepiota, which resemble fairly closely the Destroying Angel in •every way except ..."

7. The Intellectual Observer (1865)
"... but an examination of young specimens will at once decide the matter, and will distinguish it from the second sub-genus Lepiota, which derives its name ..."

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