| Hypholoma | |
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| Hypholoma fasciculare | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Strophariaceae |
| Genus: | Hypholoma (Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Naematoloma P.Karst. (1880) | |
Hypholoma is a genus of fungi which are quite well known due to the commonness of sulphur tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) on stumps in temperate woodlands. Species in this genus are easily recognizable because the dark spores create a distinctive greenish effect on the yellow cap underside. Hypholoma means "mushrooms with threads" because of the thread-like veil that connects the cap to the stem when young and for the bundles of rhizomorphs which radiate outwards from the stem base.[2] Other well-known species are H. capnoides and H. lateritium.
- ^ "Hypholoma (Fr.) P.Kumm. 1871". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ^ Paul Stamets, Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, p. 239, Ten Speed Press, 3rd ed. (2000), ISBN 1-58008-175-4