Limacella

Limacella is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Amanitaceae in order Agaricales.^[1][2] Some of the species have been classified as members of genus Lepiota. Limacella was described by mycologist Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909.^[3]

Limacella
Limacella glischra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Amanitaceae
Genus:	Limacella Earle (1909)
Type species
Limacella delicata (Fr.) Earle ex Konrad & Maubl. (1930)

In some older classification schemes, Limacella has alternatively been placed in family Pluteaceae. The species formerly classified in the genus Limacella are now placed in 4 genera; Catatrama, Limacellopsis, Limacella, and Zhuliangomyces.^[2][4][5]

Species

Name	Taxon author	Year
Limacella alachuana	(Murrill) Pegler	1983
Limacella anomologa	(Berk. & Broome) Pegler	1986
Limacella arida	(Gillet) Konrad & Maubl.	1926
Limacella asperulospora	Corner	1994
Limacella bangladeshana	M.I. Hosen & T.H. Li	2017
Limacella bentista	(Morgan) Murrill	1914
Limacella broadwayi	(Murrill) H.V. Sm.	1966
Limacella brunneovenosa	C.C. Nascimento & Wartchow	2018
Limacella delicata	(Fr.) Earle ex Konrad & Maubl.	1930
Limacella floridana	(Murrill) H.V. Sm.	1945
Limacella fulvodisca	(Peck) Murrill	1912
Limacella furnacea	(Letell.) E.-J. Gilbert	1928
Limacella glischra	(Morgan) Murrill	1914
Limacella grisea	Singer	1989
Limacella kauffmanii	H.V. Sm.	1945
Limacella laeviceps	(Speg.) Raithelh.	1980
Limacella magna	B. Kumari & R.C. Upadhyay	2013
Limacella megalopoda	(Bres.) Maire	1926
Limacella myochroa	Pegler	1983
Limacella myxodictyon	(Berk. & Broome) Pegler	1986
Limacella oaxacana	Singer	1958
Limacella oblita	(Peck) Murrill	1914
Limacella ochraceorosea	(Béguet & Bon) Neville & Poumarat	2004
Limacella olivaceobrunnea	Hongo	1978
Limacella persoonii	(Fr.) Konrad & Maubl.	1926
Limacella pitereka	Grgur.	1997
Limacella quilonensis	Sathe & J.T. Daniel	1981
Limacella rhodopus	(Bres.) Pegler	1966
Limacella roseofloccosa	Hora	1960
Limacella roseola	Murrill	1943
Limacella singaporeana	Corner	1994
Limacella solidipes	(Peck) H.V. Sm.	1945
Limacella steppicola	Zerova	1974
Limacella steppicola	Zerova & Wasser	1988
Limacella subfurnacea	Contu	1990
Limacella subglischra	(S. Imai) S. Ito	1959
Limacella subpessundata	(Murrill) Singer	1942
Limacella subtropicana	A. Izhar, Niazi, M. Asif, Haqnawaz, H. Bashir & Khalid	2022
Limacella taiwanensis	Zhu L. Yang & W.N. Chou	2002
Limacella wheroparaonea	G.S. Ridl.	1993