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 colossus - DK: kæmpe-ridderhat UK: Giant Knight *
Photo and © David Boertmann
Sweden, DB90041

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