Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Family Tricholomataceae Rank Species | Division Basidiomycota Order Agaricales Genus Squamanita | |
Similar Squamanita paradoxa, Squamanita, Tricholomataceae |
Squamanita citricolor is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae. Found in Zaire, it was first described as new to science in 1998. Fruit bodies of the fungus have a yellow cap, and a whitish to yellowish stipe originating from a yellowish, deeply rooting basal bulb in the shape of an inverted cone. Microscopically, the fungus features very thick-walled spindle-shaped (fusiform) pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia.
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