Hebeloma mesophaeum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Hymenogastraceae |
Genus: | Hebeloma |
Species: | H. mesophaeum
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Binomial name | |
Hebeloma mesophaeum |
Hebeloma mesophaeum, commonly known as the veiled hebeloma[1] is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. Like all species of its genus, it might be poisonous and result in severe gastrointestinal upset;[2] nevertheless, in Mexico this species is eaten and widely marketed.[3]
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Hebeloma mesophaeum | |
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Gills on hymenium | |
Cap is convex or umbonate | |
Hymenium is adnate or sinuate | |
Stipe is bare or has a cortina | |
Spore print is brown | |
Ecology is mycorrhizal | |
Edibility is edible or poisonous |
- ^ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
- ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
- ^ "Edible species of the fungal genus Hebeloma and two neotropical pines".