Lepiota helveola

 Lepiota helveola is a gilled mushroom of the genus Lepiota in the order Agaricales. It was described by Italian mycologist Giacomo Bresadola in 1882.

Lepiota helveola
Scientific classificationedit
Kingdom:Fungi
Division:Basidiomycota
Class:Agaricomycetes
Order:Agaricales
Family:Agaricaceae
Genus:Lepiota
Species:
L. helveola
Binomial name
Lepiota helveola
Lepiota helveola
View the Mycomorphbox template that generates the following list
Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
 cap is convex or flat
hymenium is free
stipe has a ring
spore print is white
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: deadly

It has white gills and spores. They typically have rings on the stems,

Like several other species of the genus Lepiota, it contains amatoxins which may cause potentially fatal liver injury.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article
 Metasyntactic variable, which is released under the 
Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
.