Tricholoma under Pine with a remnant ring

Dear friends,

Sorry for not posting so much lately, but mushrooms and Malta are not friends anymore - it is not raining abundantly.

Anyway, I have found something exciting a week ago, a brown Tricholoma species, with crumbling flesh and gills (like a Russula) and a remnant ring, just a wrinkle impressed around the stipe (like a Cortinarius) but it is indeed a Tricholoma with pip-shaped spores just 5um long. Only one specimen, oldish, 2-3m away from a Pine tree in calcareous limestone-rich soil.

Are there other species to consider and look alike my finding. I have a specimen if I need t make further observations (Pileipellis? Cystidia?)

Thank you in advance

LG

Steve.

After some research I shortlisted it to Tricholoma batschii.

Dear Ingo, thanks for your feedback.

That is also a possibility. If I learn what is the difference between the two (must be very small), I could maybe decide which of the two options - T. fracticum / T. batschii my finding is for a full determination. I see if I find some key in my old books, perhaps Flora Agaricina Neerlandica is helpful. I remember the odour was somewhat like ginger-lemony (a bit on the pleasent/aromatic side). Taste sour if I remember.

Many thanks

LG

Steve

Treated as synonyms by Noordeloos and Christensen in FAN Vol.4

Zitat von Nannette

Hello Steve,

Am I correct in assuming that T. batschii is listed as a synonym for T. fracticum?

Hallo Ingo.

Liege ich richtig, wenn ich annehme, dass T. batschii als Synonym für T. fracticum geführt wird?

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I am new to these two species but in Flora Agaracina Neerlandica, fracticum is a synonym of batschii. However I am consulting an old reference.

THANK YOU so much.

I downloaded this important contribution. I check my Tricholoma findings in the past, {not many from Malta}, but it would be a good exercise to to do to confirm my findings. Maybe I post something more , here for support of my determinations.

Zitat von sarifa

Hi Steve,

This is quite a typical find among pines in the Mediterranean, I've found it abundantly in Crete as well and it seems to be one of the prominent and abundant species in the Balearic Islands as well from what I've read.

Best,

Sarah

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Thank you Sarah. Here in Malta, I have not seen quite often, but then, we do not have many old forests, and many woodland areas are rather recent afforestation (planted 20-50 years ago). Anyway thanks for your observation