Macrolepiota Singer
(a genus of parasols)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Macrolepiota excoriata a parasol	Species			1 ident. refs
Macrolepiota fuligineosquarrosa a parasol	Species		18 images	1 ident. refs
Macrolepiota konradii a parasol	Species		10 images
Macrolepiota mastoidea Slender Parasol	Species			1 ident. refs
Macrolepiota procera Parasol	Species	1 subtaxa	25 images
Macrolepiota rhodosperma Sooty Parasol	Species		61 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Macrolepiota (a genus of parasols)
Family	AGARICACEAE (mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols, puffballs and bird’s-nests)
Order	AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Macrolepiota is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Agaricales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Vellinga, E.C. & de Kok, R.P.J.		Macrolepiota Sing.	Vellinga, E.C. Agaricaceae (Fr.) Cohn (Key to genera), 2pp, Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 5

Macrolepiota (a genus of parasols) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

AGARICACEAE
(mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols, puffballs and bird’s-nests)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Macrolepiota (a genus of parasols)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 11 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Macrolepiota (a genus of parasols)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Macrolepiota is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)