Species
Hygrophorus agathosmus (Almond woodwax)
Hygrophorus agathosmus. Photo: (c) Nicolò Oppicelli, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Hygrophorus agathosmus, commonly known as the gray almond waxy cap or the almond woodwax, is a species of fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was first described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1815; Fries gave it its current name in 1838. A widespread species, it is distributed in the United States, Europe, Africa, and India, and is found growing under spruce and pine in mixed forests. The fruit bodies are characterized by a light grayish cap…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Suborder: Hygrophorineae
- Family: Hygrophoraceae
- Subfamily: Hygrophoroideae
- Tribe: Hygrophoreae
- Genus: Hygrophorus (Woodwaxes)
- Subgenus: Colorati (Hygrophorus subg. colorati)
- Section: Tephroleuci (Hygrophorus sect. tephroleuci)
- Species: Hygrophorus agathosmus (Almond woodwax)
- Section: Tephroleuci (Hygrophorus sect. tephroleuci)
- Subgenus: Colorati (Hygrophorus subg. colorati)
- Genus: Hygrophorus (Woodwaxes)
- Tribe: Hygrophoreae
- Subfamily: Hygrophoroideae
- Family: Hygrophoraceae
- Suborder: Hygrophorineae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)

































