- Cap convex to expanded, yellow-brown with brown innate fibrils, with a paler cap margin.
- Gills adnexed, white, with a yellowish tinge with age.
- Stem white, often becoming brown-red to yellow-spotted with age.
- Flesh white, with a farinaceous smell and mild to somewhat bitter taste.
Tricholomatoid agarics
Sovereign Knight
Tricholoma arvernense
LC
Least concern
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with pine, sometimes also with spruce, in pine forest and mixed coniferous forest.
Notes
Slightly poisonous, gastrointestinal irritant, may cause temporary nausea.
Similar species
Species in the Tricholoma sejunctum s.lat. group can be difficult to distinguish from each other, but none of them are edible. Tricholoma sejunctum s. str. grows with oak and beech and has a southern distribution. Tricholoma guldeniae usually has a more matt, dry and sometimes finely scaly cap surface.
