Tricholoma saponaceum (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Details

Name scientific

Tricholoma saponaceum (Fr.) P. Kumm., Führer Pilzk. 133 (1871)

Preferred name

Tricholoma saponaceum (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Recorded in error

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Record with Eucalyptus unlikely [JAC]

Nomenclature

Combination authors

P. Kumm.

Original authors

Fr.

Authors

(Fr.) P. Kumm.

Publication place

Kummer, P. 1871: Der Führer in die Pilzkunde. C. Luppe.

Year published

1871

Publication page

133

Sanctioning author

Fr.

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Agaricus saponaceus Fr. 1818

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Tricholoma saponaceum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Tricholomataceae

Genus

Tricholoma

Species

saponaceum

Subordinates

Tricholoma saponaceum var. squamosum

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Soapy Knight

Synonyms

Agaricus saponaceus Fr. 1818

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell.

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

Descriptions

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Tricholoma saponaceum (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Description

Type: Mycorrhizal Fungi; Description: Basidiomata pileate. Pileus dull greyish brown, 50–100 mm in diameter, smooth, convex to plano-convex, margin incurved, dry; flesh firm, white, becoming reddish when bruised. Gills sinuate, distant, white becoming spotted with red. Stipe cylindrical, tapering towards the base, often curved, whitish, fibrillose, annulus absent, 50–100 mm long. Basidiospores elliptical, 0-septate, 5–6 × 3–4 μm, smooth, hyaline; spore print white.

Distribution

Distribution: Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Taupo.; 1st Record: Chu-Chou & Grace (1982).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: Shown experimentally to be a mycorrhizal partner of Eucalyptus regnans (Chu-Chou & Grace 1982).; Host(s): Eucalyptus regnans.