MycoKey : the genus Tricholoma

Generic short diagnoses: Fleshy, ectomycorrhizal agarics with variously coloured, often umbonate, smooth to squamulose pileus, emarginate lamellae and white, smooth, inamyloid spores and with hardly differentiated cheilocystidia.


Species example:


Tricholoma acerbum - DK: stor ridderhat UK: Bitter Knight
Photo and © Jan Vesterholt
Denmark, JV99-653

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