Genus
Echinoderma
Echinoderma asperum. Photo: (c) Fluff Berger, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
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 before he raised it to generic status in 1991.