Clitocybe acromelalga

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Clitocybe acromelalga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: Hymenomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Clitocybe
Species: C. acromelalga
Binomial name
Clitocybe acromelalga
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Clitocybe acromelalga
mycological characteristics:
 
gills on hymenium
 

cap is depressed
 

stipe is bare
 

spore print is white
 

ecology is saprotrophic
 

edibility: poisonous

Clitocybe acromelalga is a basidiomycete fungus of the large genus Clitocybe found in Japan. It was discovered to be poisonous in 1918, when symptoms of occurred within 3 days of consumption. It had been mistaken for the edible blewit Lepista inversa.[1]

Consumption of a related species, C. amoenolens from France has resulted in the same condition.[2] [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ichimura, J (1918). "A new poisonous mushroom". Bot Gaz (Tokyo) 65: 10911. 
  2. ^ Saviuc PF, Danel VC, Moreau PA, Guez DR, Claustre AM, Carpentier PH, Mallaret MP, Ducluzeau R (2001). "Erythromelalgia and mushroom poisoning". J. Toxicol Clin Toxicol 39 (4): 403-07. 
  3. ^ Diaz, James H. (February 2005). "Syndromic diagnosis and management of confirmed mushroom poisonings". Critical Care Medicine 33 (2): 427-36. doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000153531.69448.49.