The description of this issue is divided in four sections. This is part 1 of 4.

The Libyan issue was released on July 15th, 1985. It is made of 16 stamps, 50 dirhams each, printed in minisheet, size mm.198x150.

   minisheet of 16 (detail)

Leucopaxillus lepistoides   -   (Maire) Singer (1939)   -   Order Agaricales, Family Tricholomataceae   -   Edibility: edible

Amanita caesarea   -   (Scopoli) Persoon, 1801   -   Common name: Caesar's Mushroom   -   Order Agaricales, Family Amanitaceae   -   Edibility: edible (excellent); ATTENTION! It can be easily confused with similar Amanitas which are extremely poisonous

Dermocybe (Cortinarius) pratensis   -   Bon & Gaugué, 1975   -   Order Agaricales, Family Cortinariaceae

Macrolepiota excoriata   -   (Schaeff.) M.M. Moser, 1978   -   Order Agaricales, Family Agaricaceae   -   Edibility: edible (cap only)

Something more about "MUSHROOMS" (source Wikipedia)

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporum, hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap, just as do store-bought white mushrooms.

The word "mushroom" can also be used for a wide variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basiodiomycota, depending upon the context of the word.

Forms deviating from the standard form usually have more specific names, such as "puffball", "stinkhorn" and "morel", and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called "agarics" in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or thjeir placement in the Order Agaricales. By extension, "mushroom" can also designate the entire fungus when in culture or the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms.

See other related Guides: part 2, 3 and 4.

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