Mealy meadowcap                                                      Gallery       Home

(Pseudotricholoma metapodium) (Fr.) Sánchez-García & Matheny

 

DSC_0622 Grå narrevokssopp.JPG

                                                                                                                                 ©Per Fadnes

 

Pseudotricholoma metapodium is a large, fleshy tricholomatoid fungus. The cap can be up to 10 cm in diameter. The gills are pale and serrated (Tricholoma gills), and gets red when touched. The stem is up to 7 cm, thick, white - gray and fibrillose. It clearly smells farinaceous and should be easy to determine in the field. The spores are ellipsoid and approx. 7 x 3.5 μm. They stain blue with iodine (amyloid spores). The genus contains 3 species, but for the time being this is the only one found in Norway.

 

Ecology/Indicatorvalue

Porpoloma metapodium grows almost always in old pastures and is considered a good indicator of valuable grasslands and grows together with many other rare and redlisted species.

 

Fructification in Norway: From beginning of August to medio October. 

 

 

Redlistcategory: EN – endangered

 

Other Nordic countries:

Sweden

Denmark

Finland

VU – vulnerable

EN – endangered

EN – endangered

 

 

Distributionmap

 

 

References:

Vesterholt, J. 2012. Porpoloma. I Knudsen, H. & Vesterholt, J. (red)

Funga Nordica. Agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid, cyphelloid and gastroid

genera. Nordsvamp – Copenhagen. s 487.