Section
Tricholoma
Tricholoma sejunctum. Photo: (c) Federico Calledda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Tricholoma is a genus of fungus that contains a large number of fairly fleshy white-spored gilled mushrooms which are found worldwide generally growing in woodlands. These are ectomycorrhizal fungi, existing in a symbiotic relationship with various species of coniferous or broad-leaved trees. The generic name derives from the Greek trichos (τριχος) meaning hair and loma (λωμα) meaning fringe or border, although only a few species (such as T. vaccinum) have shaggy caps which fit this description.
- 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: Tricholoma
- Section: Tricholoma
- Species: Tricholoma virgatum
- Species: Tricholoma griseoviolaceum (Violet-gray knight)
- Species: Tricholoma portentosum (Sticky gray trich)
- Species: Tricholoma subsejunctum
- Species: Tricholoma subacutum
- Species: Tricholoma atrofibrillosum
- Species: Tricholoma sejunctum (Deceiving knight)
- Species: Tricholoma equestre (Yellow knight)
- Section: Tricholoma
- Subgenus: Tricholoma
- 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)
