Agaricus
augustus: note the free gill attachment and presence of
an annulus.
AGARICALES: hymenophore either lamellate or porose; if porose, the tubes are easily removed from the pileus; basidiocarp fleshy, typically monomitic, rarely dimitic. In the modern sense, the boletes are placed in their own order, the Boletales.
Families: Agaricaceae, Amanitaceae, Bolbitiaceae, Boletaceae, Coprinaceae, Cortinariaceae, Entolomataceae, Gomphidiaceae, Hygrophoraceae, Lepiotaceae, Paxillaceae, Pluteaceae, Russulaceae, Strophariaceae, Tricholomataceae
Agaricaceae: basidiospores purple brown to black; gills free.
Agaricus
augustus: note the free gill attachment and presence of
an annulus.
Lepiotaceae: basidiocarps with white spores; free gill attachment; sphaerocysts absent in the trama; gill trama not parallel to subparallel.
Left: Lepiota
brunneodisca; the dark-colored pileal disc which is in
distinct contrast to the rest of the pileal surface is typical
for many species of Lepiota. Middle: Lepiota
cristata, toxix. Right: Lepiota americana; gree
gills are shown in middle specimen.
classification for Basidiomycotina
rusts and smuts, jelly fungi (tremellales), jelly fungi (dacrymycetales), agaricales, aphyllophorales, gasteromycetes
genus and species
introductory features for Basidiomycotina