Amanitaceae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Basidiomycota
Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina
Classis: Agaricomycetes
Subclassis: Agaricomycetidae
Ordo: Agaricales
Subordo: Pluteineae

Familia: Amanitaceae
Genera: Amanita – Catatrama – Limacella – Limacellopsis – Zhuliangomyces
Name

Amanitaceae E.-J.Gilbert, Iconogr. Mycol. 27: 63 (1940). [MycoBank #817322]
References

Cui, Y.-Y., Cai, Q., Tang, L.-P., Liu, J.-W. & Yang, Z.-L. 2018. The family Amanitaceae: molecular phylogeny, higher-rank taxonomy and the species in China. Fungal diversity 91: 5–230. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-018-0405-9 Hybrid open access journal. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.

Gilbert, E.-J. 1940. Amanitaceae. [I]. In Bresadola (ed.), Iconographia Mycologica 27 [=Suppl. 1] (1): 1–198. Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Milano. Reference page.

Gilbert, E.-J. 1941. Amanitaceae. [II]. In Bresadola (ed.), Iconographia Mycologica 27 [=Suppl. 1] (2–3): 203–427. Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Milano. Reference page.

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Vernacular names
беларуская: Мухаморавыя
Deutsch: Wulstlingsverwandte
eesti: Kärbseseenelised
italiano: Amanitacee
日本語: テングタケ科

The Amanitaceae is a family of mushroom-forming fungi. Amanita Pers. is one of the most speciose and best-known fungal genera.[1] 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 Amarrendia, Catatrama, Limacella, Limacellopsis, Saproamanita, Torrendia and Zhuliangomyces. Both Amarrendia and Torrendia are considered to be synonymous with Amanita but appear quite different because they are secotioid.

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

Amanita caesarea, Caesar's mushroom
Amanita muscaria, fly agaric
Amanita rubescens, blusher
Amanita pantherina, panther cap
Amanita phalloides, death cap.
Amanita velosa, orange spring amanita.
Amanita virosa, destroying angel
Limacella bangladeshana, a rare species exclusive to Bangladesh.