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The Pluteaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have free gill attachment and pink spores.Members of Pluteaceae can be mistaken for members of Entolomataceae, but can be distinguished by the angled spores and attached gills of the Entolomataceae.
Amanita bisporigera is a deadly poisonous species of fungus in the family Amanitaceae.It is commonly known as the eastern destroying angel amanita, [3] the eastern North American destroying angel or just as the destroying angel, although the fungus shares this latter name with three other lethal white Amanita species, A. ocreata, A. verna and A. virosa.
Most boletes are mycorrhizal and are generally found in woodlands. [8] There is also a parasitic bolete, Pseudoboletus parasiticus, which grows on Scleroderma citrinum. [9] [10] Another parasitic bolete is Buchwaldoboletus lignicola, which is a parasite to Phaeolus schweinitzii, the dyer's polypore.
Phallus impudicus, known colloquially as the common stinkhorn, [2] is a widespread fungus in the Phallaceae (stinkhorn) family. It is recognizable for its foul odor and its phallic shape when mature, the latter feature giving rise to several names in 17th-century England.
Amanita phalloides is the most poisonous of all known mushrooms. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It is estimated that as little as half a mushroom contains enough toxin to kill an adult human. [ 9 ] It is also the deadliest mushroom worldwide, responsible for 90% of mushroom-related fatalities every year. [ 10 ]
The very recognizable fly agaric. The genus Amanita was first published with its current meaning by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1797. [1] Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Persoon's concept of Amanita, with Amanita muscaria (L.) Pers. as the type species, has been officially conserved against the older Amanita Boehm (1760), which is considered a synonym of Agaricus L. [2]
Xylaria hypoxylon is a species of bioluminescent fungus in the family Xylariaceae. [NB 1] It is known by a variety of common names, such as the candlestick fungus, the candlesnuff fungus, carbon antlers, [2] or the stag's horn fungus. [3]