Mushrooms · La Saladita, Guerrero

Deadly Skullcap

Galerina marginata

Spanish: Galerina mortífera

Deadly Skullcap (Galerina marginata)
Photographed by alan_rockefeller on iNaturalist · CC-BY · taken in Lewis County, WA, USA, not near La Saladita

Galerina marginata, known colloquially as funeral bell, deadly skullcap, autumn skullcap or deadly galerina, is a species of extremely poisonous mushroom-forming fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae of the order Agaricales. Before 2001, the species G. autumnalis, G. oregonensis, G. unicolor, and G. venenata were thought to be distinct from G. marginata due to differences in habitat and the viscidity of their caps, but phylogenetic analysis showed that they are all the same species.

TaxonomyAgaricomycetes › Agaricales › Hymenogastraceae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records28,505 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Deadly Skullcap (Galerina marginata) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/galerina-marginata/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.