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 vaccinum - DK: ko-ridderhat UK: Scaly Knight
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-04.099

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