Leucoagaricus

''Leucoagaricus'' is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Several fungus-growing ants cultivate multiple species for food. The genus contains approximately 90 species.

Taxonomy

This group of mushrooms was first defined as a subgenus of ''Leucocoprinus'' by Marcel Locquin in 1945, and it was then elevated to the status of genus by Rolf Singer in the journal ''Sydowia (journal), Sydowia'' in 1948. The group was characterized as belonging to family Agaricaceae with white, dirty cream or pink spores which are generally small (up to 10 µm) but much bigger in one species, with a germ pore, with a pseudo-Amyloid (mycology), amyloid multilayered membrane, simple or ornamented, which is Metachromasia, metachromatic in Brilliant cresyl blue, cresyl blue. The hyphae in the Sporocarp (fungi), sporocarp are without clamp connections. There is always a Annulus (mycology), ring which is initially fixed (but later may be movable).

The type species is ''Leucoagaricus barssii'' (Zeller) Vellinga, which was formerly called ''L. macrorhizus''.

Species

Select species include:
*''Leucoagaricus americanus''
*''Leucoagaricus badhamii''
*''Leucoagaricus barssii''
*''Leucoagaricus erythrophaeus''
*''Leucoagaricus gaillardii''
*''Leucoagaricus gongylophorus''
*''Leucoagaricus leucothites''
*''Leucoagaricus meleagris''
*''Leucoagaricus moseri''
*''Leucoagaricus nympharum''
*''Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus''
*''Leucoagaricus sericifer''

See also

*List of Agaricaceae genera
*List of Agaricales genera
*List of Leucoagaricus species

References

Leucoagaricus,
Agaricales genera
Taxa named by Rolf Singer

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