Lepiota Gray 1821
Creators: name: Liang, Ying-Shan
name: Xu, Yi-Wen
name: Ouyang, Min
name: Huang, Xiao-Xia
name: Lin, Zhi-Jun
name: Qiu, Li-Hong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Agaricaceae
Lepiota

description: Key to the Lepiota species from China
1. Background and lamellae white tone .................................................................................................................................................2
1. Background and lamellae yellow tone .............................................................................................................................................14
2. Pileus surface with pinkish tinge suqamules at the disk.................................................................................... L. catenariocystidiata
2. Pileus surface with brown-toned suqamules at the disk.....................................................................................................................3
3. Pileipellis a hymeniform.....................................................................................................................................................................4
3. Pileipellis a trichodermium.................................................................................................................................................................5
4. Basidiospores truncate or subtriangular ........................................................................................................................ L. cristatanea
4. Basidiospores ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid...................................................................................................... L. atrobrunneodisca
5. Clamp connections absent in basidiocarp................................................................................................................... L. furfuraceipes
5. Clamp connections present in basidiocarp .........................................................................................................................................6
6. Basidiospores non-dextrinoid, not metachromatic in cresyl blue ................................................................................ L. subcastanea
6. Basidiospores dextrinoid, not metachromatic in cresyl blue..............................................................................................................7
7. Cheilocystidia absent......................................................................................................................................... L. brunneosqualulosa
7. Cheilocystidia present ........................................................................................................................................................................8
8. Lamellae free to subfree, moderately crowded, denticulate.............................................................................................. L. venenata
8. Lamellae free, moderately crowded, plane.........................................................................................................................................9
9. Pileus with sulcate striations ............................................................................................................................................................10
9. Pileus without sulcate striations .......................................................................................................................................................11
10. Pileus with yellowish brown, reddish brown to dark brown squamules; stipe surface covered by reddish brown squamules at base ................................................................................................................................................................................. L. amplicystidiata
10. Pileus with brownish yellow to yellowish brown squamules; stipe surface covered by whitish to grayish orange squamules at lower part..................................................................................................................................................................................... L. attenuate
11. Basidiomata medium-sized to big; pileus 40–90 mm in diam ................................................................................ L. nigrosquamosa
11. Basidiomata slender, small-sized; pileus 10–40 mm in diam ..........................................................................................................12
12. Basidiospores subtriangular............................................................................................................................................ L. mandarina
12. Basidiospores ellipsoid or ellipsoid to oblong..................................................................................................................................13
13. Pileus with brownish orange, light brown to dark brown squamules; basidiospores 6–7 × 4–5 μm ................... L. angusticystidiata
13. Pileus with brown to reddish brown suqamules; basidiospores 9–12 × 6–8 μm.................................................... L. pallidiochracea
14. Pileus surface with yellowish-brown granular pyramidal ........................................................................................... L. omninoflava
14. Pileus surface with brown aggregated fibrillose scales................................................................................................. L. baiyunensis
description: Published as part of Liang, Ying-Shan, Xu, Yi-Wen, Ouyang, Min, Huang, Xiao-Xia, Lin, Zhi-Jun & Qiu, Li-Hong, 2023, Lepiota baiyunensis sp. nov. (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) from Baiyun Mountain, China, pp. 1-15 in Phytotaxa 606 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8202270