Leucoagaricus americanus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Agaricaceae |
Genus: | Leucoagaricus |
Species: | L. americanus
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Binomial name | |
Leucoagaricus americanus (Peck) Vellinga (2000)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Leucoagaricus americanus | |
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![]() | Gills on hymenium |
![]() ![]() | Cap is flat or convex |
![]() | Hymenium is free |
![]() | Stipe has a ring |
![]() | Spore print is white |
![]() | Ecology is saprotrophic |
![]() | Edibility is edible |
Leucoagaricus americanus, commonly known as the American parasol,[2] is a mushroom in the genus Leucoagaricus, native to North America.[3] It was first described by Charles Horton Peck, an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in 1869. It is widely distributed in North America, though more common east of the Rocky Mountains; it is saprobic, and grows on sawdust, on wood chips, on stumps, and on the ground.[4]