Leucocoprinus russoceps
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| Leucocoprinus russoceps | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae |
| Genus: | Leucocoprinus |
| Species: | L. russoceps |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucocoprinus russoceps Raithelh. (1987) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Agaricus russoceps Berk & Broome (1871) | |
Leucocoprinus russoceps | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is campanulate or convex |
 | Hymenium is free |
 | Stipe has a ring |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is unknown |
Leucocoprinus russoceps is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.[1][2]
It was described in 1871 by the English botanists and mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome who classified it as Agaricus (Lepiota) russoceps.[3]
In 1887 it was reclassified as Lepiota russoceps by the Italian mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo[4] and then as Mastocephalus russoceps in 1891 by the German botanist Otto Kunze,[5] however Kunze's Mastocephalus genus, along with most of 'Revisio generum plantarum' was not widely accepted by the scientific community of the age so it remained a Lepiota.
In 1987 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus russoceps by the mycologist Jörg Raithelhuber.[6]