Knightcaps Tricholoma
Included genera: Leucopaxillus, Porpoloma, Pseudotricholoma, Tricholoma, Lepista, Tricholomopsis, Melanoleuca, Cercopemyces, Lyophyllum, Calocybe, Leucocortinarius, Rhodocybe, Hypsizygus, Rugosomyces, Floccularia, Leucocybe
Knightcaps are mostly medium to large, white-spored gilled mushrooms. Their gills can be sinuate, with a distinctive notch before meeting the stem.
- White spore print
- Sinuate or notched gills
- No ring or volva
- Flesh usually firm
The sinuate attachment is the small notch in a gill just before the stem; it is clearest on a mature, undamaged specimen. Smell, habitat and cap surface are often essential further characters.
The group contains poisonous species and several very similar mushrooms. Do not decide edibility from white gills or a common name alone.
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