Amanitaceae

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Amanitaceae
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Amanita muscaria
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
E.-J. Gilbert (1940)
Type genus
Amanita
Pers. (1794)
Genera

Amanita
Catatrama
Limacella
Limacellopsis
Saproamanita
Zhuliangomyces

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The Amanitaceae are a family of mushroom-forming fungi. The family, also commonly called the amanita family[ citation needed ], is in order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms. The family consists primarily of the large genus Amanita , but also includes the smaller genera Catatrama , Limacella , Limacellopsis , Saproamanita , and Zhuliangomyces .

The species are usually found in woodlands. The most characteristic emerge from an egg-like structure formed by the universal veil.

This family contains several species valued for edibility and flavor, and other deadly poisonous ones. More than half the cases of mushroom poisoning stem from members of this family. The most toxic members of this group have names that warn of the poisonous nature, but others, of varying degrees of toxicity, do not.

Some notable species

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