Entoloma abortivum

Entoloma abortivum
Entoloma abortivum parasitizing the fruit bodies of Armillaria gallica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: Hymenomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Entolomataceae
Genus: Entoloma
Species: E. abortivum
Binomial name
Entoloma abortivum
(Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Donk
Synonyms

Clitopilus abortivus Berk. & M.A. Curtis
Rhodophyllus abortivus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Singer

Entoloma abortivum
Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is depressed
hymenium is adnexed
stipe is bare
spore print is pink

edibility: edible

but not recommended

Entoloma abortivum, commonly known as the aborted entoloma,[1] is an edible mushroom in the Entolomataceae family of fungi. First named Clitopilus abortivus by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis, it was given its current name by the Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1949.[2]

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References

  1. ^ Spahr DL. (2009). Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada. Richmond, Calif: North Atlantic Books. pp. 155–60. ISBN 1-55643-795-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=nFZ-lwRXuNYC&lpg=PA155&dq=Entoloma%20abortivum&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q=Entoloma%20abortivum&f=false. Retrieved 2010-03-19. 
  2. ^ Donk MA. (1949). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 18: 157. 

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