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The type species is ''Leucoagaricus barssii'' (Zeller) Vellinga, which was formerly called ''L. macrorhizus''.
The type species is ''Leucoagaricus barssii'' (Zeller) Vellinga, which was formerly called ''L. macrorhizus''.


===Species===
==Species==
{{Main|List of Leucoagaricus species}}
{{Main|List of Leucoagaricus species}}
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|2011-09-03 Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus (Peck) Singer 166243.jpg|''[[Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus]]''
|2011-09-03 Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus (Peck) Singer 166243.jpg|''[[Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus]]''
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==See also==
*[[List of Agaricaceae genera]]
*[[List of Agaricales genera]]
*[[List of Leucoagaricus species]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 06:37, 12 July 2022

Leucoagaricus
Leucoagaricus americanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Leucoagaricus
Locq. ex Singer (1948)
Type species
Leucoagaricus macrorhizus
Locq. ex Singer (1948)
Species

Around 90, see List of Leucoagaricus species

Synonyms[1]
Leucoagaricus leucothites
Leucoagaricus nympharum
Leucoagaricus nympharum

Leucoagaricus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Several fungus-growing ants cultivate multiple species for food.[2] The genus contains approximately 90 species.[3]

Taxonomy

This group of mushrooms was first defined as a subgenus of Leucocoprinus by Marcel Locquin in 1945, and it was then elevated to the status of genus by Rolf Singer in the journal Sydowia in 1948. The group was characterized as belonging to family Agaricaceae with white, dirty cream or pink spores which are generally small (up to 10 µm) but much bigger in one species, with a germ pore, with a pseudo-amyloid multilayered membrane, simple or ornamented, which is metachromatic in cresyl blue. The hyphae in the sporocarp are without clamp connections. There is always a ring which is initially fixed (but later may be movable).[4]

The type species is Leucoagaricus barssii (Zeller) Vellinga, which was formerly called L. macrorhizus.

Species

Select species include:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Synonymy: Leucoagaricus Locq. ex Singer". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  2. ^ Hölldobler, Bert (2009). The superorganism : the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies. Edward O. Wilson, Margaret Cecile Nelson (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06704-0. OCLC 227016678.
  3. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  4. ^ Singer R (1948). "Diagnoses fungorum novorum Agaricalium". Sydowia (in Latin). 2: 35.