Tricholoma pessundatum

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

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]

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

References[]

^ "Tricholoma pessundatum (Fr.) Quél. :77, t. 95, 1872". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-03-23.
^ 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).
^ 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.

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