Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >> Order: Agaricales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Tricholoma giganteum | |||
Author: | Basionym: Macrocybe gigantea (Massee) Pegler & Lodge, Mycologia 90: 497. 1998. Tricholoma giganteum Massee, Bull. Misc. Ihf. Kew 1912:254. 1912. |
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Description: | Pileus 10-30 cm, convex to flat, white to grayish white, glabrous, margin entire and incurved. Gills notched, crowded of several lengths, grayish white. Stipe central, 15-50 × 4-8 cm, solid, white, glabrous. Spore print white, spores ovate, hyaline, smooth, I-, 6-7 × 4-4.5 μm. Cystidia not seen. Hyphae with clamps. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Yunlin: Lintsoliao, on soil, 29 Dec. 1994, CWN 00749 (TNM F0003041). |
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Habitat: | On ground in broad-leaved forest. | |||
Distribution: | North hemisphere. |
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References: | Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001. |
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Provided: | W. N. Chou |
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Note: | It is edible. | |||