Tricholoma caligatum

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Spore print "light-colored": white or buff, sometimes tinged with pink or tan. Greenish and (except for the Russulales) yellow spore prints also go here
Stalk fibrous, not fracturing like a piece of chalk

None of the special features distinguishing the other white-spored genera:
Gills not free, as in the Lepiotas and Amanitas
Basidia not extra-long, as in the Hygrophoraceae
Spores smooth, except for Lentinellus

Growing on the ground

Found in woods
Not rooting

Woodland habitat (mycorrhizal)
Stem fleshy, not rooting

All mushrooms with emarginate gills (as in picture) go here
Some yellowish coloration common, perhaps some colorful powder or scales on the cap and/or lower stem; sometimes with a partial veil and armilla (not an annulus).
If the mushroom has an ordinary annulus, you may have one of the Lepiotaceae

Tricholoma caligatum     (Viviani) Ricken

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.

Diagnosis

• Cap with coarse scales and fibers
  
• With an armilla; the part that sheathes the stem breaking up into patches as the stem grows

Comments

This is our flagship species for a section of "armilloid" Tricholomas


 

 

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