Species
Tricholoma sulphureum (Sulphur knight)
Tricholoma sulphureum. Photo: (c) Davide Puddu, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Tricholoma sulphureum, also known as sulphur knight or gas agaric, is an inedible or mildly poisonous mushroom found in woodlands in Europe. It has a distinctive bright yellow colour and an unusual smell likened to coal gas. It occurs in deciduous woodlands in Europe from spring to autumn.
- 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: Tricholomataceae
- Genus: Tricholoma (Knights)
- Subgenus: Sericeicutis
- Section: Sericella
- Species: Tricholoma sulphureum (Sulphur knight)
- Section: Sericella
- Subgenus: Sericeicutis
- Genus: Tricholoma (Knights)
- Family: Tricholomataceae
- 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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