Red cherries

Red cherries
Fuchsiger Röteltrichterling ( Paralepista flaccida )
Systematics
Subdivision : Agaricomycotina Class : Agaricomycetes Subclass : Agaricomycetidae Order : Mushroom-like (Agaricales) Family : Knight relatives (Tricholomataceae) Genre : Red cherries
Scientific name
Paralepista
Raithelh.

The red cherries ( Paralepista ) are a genus of mushrooms from the order of the mushroom-like and a satellite genus of the red cherries ( Lepista ). It contains species with very crowded standing, sloping lamellae and oval to almost round spores. The type species is the red chalk funnel .

Species list

Red cherries ( Paralepista ) in Europe

German name	Scientific name	Author quote
Dry grass red chalk funnel	Paralepista apdita	(Dörfelt) Vizzini 2012
Ocher yellow red chalk funnel	Paralepista ameliae	(Arcang.) Vizzini 2012
Foxy red chalk funnel	Paralepista flaccida	(Sowerby) Vizzini 2012
Water-stained red chalk funnel	Paralepista gilva	(Pers.) Raithelh. 1996
Ocher-beige red chalk funnel	Paralepista pseudoparilis	(Enderle & Contu) Vizzini 2012

meaning

The species of the genus are edible, but there is a high risk of confusion with the highly poisonous species of the genus Paralepistopsis such as the perfumed funnel .

See also

• Red chalk knights

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfredo Vizzini & Enrico Ercole: Paralepistopsis gen. Nov. and Paralepista (Basidiomycota, Agaricales). In: Mycotaxon. 2012, accessed June 1, 2020 .