Leucocoprinus biornatus
Leucocoprinus biornatus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Taxonomy It was first described in 1871 by the British mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley & Christopher Edmund Broome who classified it as Agaricus biornatus. In 1887 it was classified as Lepiota biornata by the Italian botanist and mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo and then as Mastocephalus biornatus in 1891 by the German botanist Otto Kunze, 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 1945 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus biornatus by the French mycologist Marcel Locquin who also classified the subspecies Leucocoprinus badhamii subsp. biornatus in the same year. This is now considered a synonym. Description Leucocoprinus biornatus is a small dapperling mushroom with white flesh that may tinge yellow, pinkish or brown.Cap: 8–10 cm wide with brittle flesh. White and silky but discolouring pinkish with age. Conical when young expanding to convex or campanulate (bell shaped) and becoming irregularly shaped with age but with a persistent umbo throughout. It is covered in light brown woolly scales (floccose or squamulose) which become a darker brown or reddish with