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age of your field guide, your books may still use this genus name in the wide sense. but today's lepiota is not your grandmother's lepiota, according to mycology. microscopic analysis and, more recently, dna studies, have wreaked havoc on the former genus, leaving us with a smaller, core group of mushrooms
(like lepiota cristata ) that are "really" species of lepiota--and a host of other genus names (cystolepiota, macrolepiota, leucoagaricus, leucocoprinus, chlorophyllum . . .) for the rest. in fact, seemingly diverse mushrooms like the brown-spored agaricus campestris and the black-spored, gill-digesting...
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