The naming of Amanita phalloides

 

Another early and important appearance of Amanita phalloides. Persoon classifies it as amanita but gives it the name Amanita viridis.

1797
C. H. (Christiaan Hendrik) Persoon (1755-1837)
Tentamen Dispositionis Methodicae Fungorum In Classes,Ordines, Genera Et Familias. Cum Supplemento Adjecto.
Lipsiae, P.P. Wolf, 1797.

Amanita viridis Pers.

 

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