Species:
Tricholoma scalpturatum
- Scientific name:
- Tricholoma scalpturatum
- Arabic name:
- فطر الرصاصي الأهدب الفاتح اللون
- French name:
- Tricholome jaunissant
- English name:
- Yellowing Knight
- Habitat:
- Solitary to clustered in hardwood forests.
- Surrounding vegetation:
- Usually found under broad-leaf trees such as oaks; occasionally in pine woodland.
- Ecological niche:
- Mycorrhizal, in broad-leaf woodland (populus & oak) ; occasionally in pine woodland.
- Chromosome Number:
- -
- Genome size:
- -
- Cap:
- Caps are broadly convex, retaining a downturned margin and a very shallow umbo.
- Gills / pores:
- Moderately well spaced apart, they are adnate to emarginate, broad, white then yellowing with age.
- - Stem:
- More or less cylindrical, often with a faint cortina-like ring zone created by a veil.
- Dimensions:
- Moderately well spaced apart, they are adnate to emarginate, broad, white then yellowing with age.
- - Color(s):
- Cap, stem and gills are white- grey, and tend to become yellowish with age.
- Texture, other traits:
- Stem is fibrous.; cap has a fibrous surface, and dense scales at its center.
- Kingdom Fungi
- Phylum Basidiomycota
- Class Agaricomycetes
- Order Agaricales
- Family Tricholomataceae
- Genus Tricholoma
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