Section Species in the Mediterranean Basin: Destroying Angels Reviewed.

In Europe, amatoxin-containing mushrooms are responsible for most of the deadly poisonings caused by macrofungi. The present work presents a multidisciplinary revision of the European species of sect. based on morphology, phylogeny, epidemiology, and biochemistry of amatoxins and phallotoxins. Five distinct species of this section have been identified in Europe to date: , , , the recently introduced North American species , and sp. nov., which is a new name proposed for the KOH-negative Mediterranean species previously described as or by various authors. Epitypes or neotypes are selected for species lacking suitable reference collections, namely and . Three additional taxa, , and var. are here considered later heterotypic synonyms of , and , respectively.