Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Agaricales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
 
   
   
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Basionym: Agaricus birnbaumii Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 3: 48. 1839.

Leucocoprinus birnbaumii (Corda) Sing., Sydowia 15: 67. 1962.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Pileus 4-7 cm, convex to flat, slightly umbonate, yellow, covered by white scales, margin striate. Gills free, crowded of several lengths, pale yellow, entire. Stipe central, 7-9 × 0.4-0.6 cm, cylindrical, hollow, yellow, flat scaly, base enlarged. Annulus membranous, yellow, ascending. Spores broadly elliptical, with apical germ pores, thick-walled, hyaline, smooth, I+, 8-12 × 6-7 μm. Cystidia ventricose. Hyphae without clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taichung: National Museum of Natural Science, on soil, 12 Oct. 1996, CWN 01874 (TNM F0005513).
 
 
 
　Habitat： Gregarious on humus in lowland.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Cosmopolitan.
 
 
 
　References：

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Breitenbach, J. and Kranzlin, E. 1995; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. N. Chou
 
 
　Note： It is poisonous.