Species
Entoloma sericellum (Cream pinkgill)
Entoloma sericellum. Photo: (c) Larry Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Entoloma is a large genus of terrestrial pink-gilled mushrooms, with about 1000 species. They have a drab appearance, pink gills which are attached to the stem, a smooth thick cap, and angular spores. Most entolomas are saprobic. The best-known member of is the livid agaric (Entoloma sinuatum), responsible for a number of poisonings over the years in Europe and North America, and Entoloma rhodopolium in Japan. Some southern hemisphere species such as Entoloma rodwayi and Entoloma…
- 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: Tricholomatineae
- Family: Entolomataceae
- Genus: Entoloma (Pinkgills)
- Subgenus: Alboleptonia
- Species: Entoloma sericellum (Cream pinkgill)
- Subgenus: Alboleptonia
- Genus: Entoloma (Pinkgills)
- Family: Entolomataceae
- Suborder: Tricholomatineae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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