Family
Tricholomataceae
Tricholoma pardinum. Photo: (c) Alan Rockefeller, some rights reserved (CC BY)
The Tricholomataceae are a large family of mushrooms within the Agaricales. A classic “wastebasket taxon”, the family is inclusive of any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genera in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to e.g. the Amanitaceae, Lepiotaceae, Hygrophoraceae, Pluteaceae, or Entolomataceae.