Tricholoma pessundatum

Tricholoma pessundatum is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma. First described as Agaricus pessundatus by Elias Magnus Fries in 1821, it was transferred to the genus Tricholoma by Lucien Quélet in 1872.[2]

Tricholoma pessundatum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Tricholoma
Species:
T. pessundatum
Binomial name
Tricholoma pessundatum
(Fr.) Quél. (1872)
Synonyms[1]
  • Agaricus pessundatus Fr. (1821)
  • Gyrophila equestris var. pessundata (Fr.) Quél. (1886)
  • Gyrophila pessundata (Fr.) Quél. (1888)

The species has as sour meal odor, and contains toxins which can cause severe gastrointestinal upset.[3]

A very similar species to the European mushroom is Tricholoma muricatum, which differs only in microscopic details.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Tricholoma pessundatum (Fr.) Quél. :77, t. 95, 1872". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-03-23.
  2. Quélet L. (1872). "Les Champignons du Jura et des Vosges". Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation de Montbéliard (in French). 5 (2): 43–332 (see p. 77).
  3. Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
  4. Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.


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