MycoKey : the genus Tricholomopsis

Generic short diagnoses: Tricholomatoid, white-spored, softwood-inhabiting, fleshy agarics with dark (purple or dark brown to black) hair-like squamules on yellow stipe and pileus; cheilocystidia differentiated.


Species example:


Tricholomopsis rutilans - DK: purpur-væbnerhat UK: Plums and Custard
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-03.272

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