Hypholoma fasciculare

Hypholoma fasciculare
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Strophariaceae
Genus: Hypholoma
Species:
H. fasciculare
Binomial name
Hypholoma fasciculare
(Huds.:Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871)
Synonyms
  • Agaricus fascicularis Huds. (1778)
  • Naematoloma fasciculare (Huds.) P.Karst. (1880)
Hypholoma fasciculare
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnate
Stipe has a ring
Spore print is purple-brown
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is poisonous

Hypholoma fasciculare, commonly known as the sulphur tuft or clustered woodlover, is a common woodland mushroom, often in evidence when hardly any other mushrooms are to be found. This saprotrophic small gill fungus grows prolifically in large clumps on stumps, dead roots or rotting trunks of broadleaved trees.

The "sulphur tuft" is bitter and poisonous; consuming it can cause vomiting, diarrhea and convulsions. The toxins are steroids known as fasciculols and have been shown to be calmodulin inhibitors.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Grünblättriger Schwefelkopf (Hypholoma fasciculare) im GIFTPFLANZEN.COMpendium - www.giftpflanzen.com". giftpflanzen.com.
  2. ^ Kubo, Isao; Matsumoto, Akiko; Kozuka, Mutsuo.; Wood, William F. (1985). "Calmodulin Inhibitors from the Bitter Mushroom Naematoloma fasciculare". Chem. Pharm. Bull. 33: 3821–3825. doi:10.1248/cpb.33.3821.