Section
Genuina
Tricholoma pessundatum. Photo: (c) Drew T Henderson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
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: Genuina
- Species: Tricholoma aurantio-olivaceum
- Species: Tricholoma dryophilum (Oak-loving trich)
- Species: Tricholoma transmutans
- Species: Tricholoma muricatum
- Species: Tricholoma vaccinum
- Species: Tricholoma fulvum (Birch knight)
- Species: Tricholoma focale (Necklace tricholoma)
- Species: Tricholoma pessundatum (Red-brown trich)
- Species: Tricholoma batschii
- Species: Tricholoma imbricatum
- Section: Genuina
- 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)
