Echinoderma

Echinoderma
Echinoderma asperum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Agaricaceae
Genus:	Echinoderma (Locq. ex Bon) Bon (1991)
Type species
Echinoderma asperum (Pers.) Bon (1991)
Synonyms
Cystolepiota subgen. Echinoderma Locq. ex Bon (1981)

Echinoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its members were for a long time considered to belong to genus Lepiota and the group was then circumscribed by French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1981 as a subgenus of Cystolepiota^[1] before he raised it to generic status in 1991.^[2]