Pseudotricholoma

Pseudotricholoma
Pseudotricholoma umbrosum, Ohio, USA
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Pseudotricholoma
(Singer) Sánchez-García & Matheny (2014)
Type species
Pseudotricholoma umbrosum
(A.H.Sm. & M.B.Walters) Sánchez-García & Matheny (2014)
Species

Pseudotricholoma is a genus of fungi in the family Tricholomataceae. The genus contains three species known from North America. Europe, and the Azores. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) resemble those of the genus Tricholoma, with a dry fibrillose pileus and white to brown lamellae that have adnate to emarginate attachment and stain reddish when damaged, eventually turning black. Microscopically, the basidiospores are smooth, ellipsoid to ellipsoid-oblong, thin-walled and amyloid. Cheilocystidia are rare to absent and pleurocystidia are absent. The pileipellis is a cutis and clamp connections are present. Species in Pseudotricholoma are found on soil in grasslands and woods. They are probably biotrophic, and may be ectomycorrhizal.[1]

Etymology

Pseudotricholoma means "false Tricholoma".

See also

References

  1. ^ Sánchez-García, Marisol (October 2014). "Deconstructing the Tricholomataceae (Agaricales) and introduction of the new genera Albomagister, Corneriella, Pogonoloma and Pseudotricholoma". Taxon. 63 (5): 993–1007. doi:10.12705/635.635.3.


This Tricholomataceae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.