Pseudotricholoma

Pseudotricholoma
Scientific classification
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)


Pseudotricholoma is a genus of fungi in the family Tricholomataceae. The genus contains two species known from the Canada, the United States and Europe. Pseudotricholoma was described the mycologists Marisol Sánchez-García and P. Brandon Matheny in 2014 with Pseudotricholoma umbrosum as the type species.[1]

Pseudotricholoma has a tricholomatoid stature, a dry fibrillose pileus and white to brown gills that have adnate to emarginate attachment and stain reddish when damaged, eventually turning black. The spores 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 in the Northern Hemisphere. They are probably biotrophic, and might be ectomycorrhizal.[1]

Macroscopically, it resembles Tricholoma and can be differentiated by its red staining gills.

Phylogenetically, it is closely related to Tricholoma and Leucopaxillus.[1]

Etymology

Pseudotricholoma means "fake Tricholoma".

Species

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
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