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