Tapinella panuoides | |
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Tapinella panuoides | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Boletales |
Family: | Tapinellaceae |
Genus: | Tapinella |
Species: | T. panuoides
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Binomial name | |
Tapinella panuoides (Batsch) E.-J.Gilbert 1931
Les Livres du Mycologue Tome I-IV, Tom. III: Les Bolets: 68 (1931) | |
Subspecies | |
Tapinella panuoides var. ionipus (Quélet 1888) C.Hahn 1999 | |
Synonyms | |
Paxillus panuoides |
Tapinella panuoides | |
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Gills on hymenium | |
Spore print is yellow to brown | |
Ecology is saprotrophic | |
Edibility is poisonous |
Tapinella panuoides, also known as oyster rollrim,[1] and as fan pax from its former binomial Paxillus panuoides, is a fungus species in the genus Tapinella.
Atromentin is a phenolic compound. The first enzymes in its biosynthesis have been characterised in T. panuoides.[2]
Despite its pleasant taste, the species is poisonous.[3] In North America it can be confused with poisonous western jack o'lanterns, edible chanterelle mushrooms, false chanterelles (Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca), Crepidotus, or Phyllotopsis.[4]
It grows on wood or in "lignin-rich humus," has little or no stalk where it emerges from the substrate, and the gills appear to be crimped, forked, or crosshatched close to the base.[4]