Penicillium roqueforti
Common name:
Roquefort cheese
Genus
Penicillium
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Eurotiales
Tricholoma matsutake
Common name:
Pine mushroom
Genus
Tricholoma
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Agaricales
Penicillium chrysogenum
Common name:
Penicillin
Genus
Penicillium
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Eurotiales
Penicillium roqueforti
Common name:
Roquefort cheese
Genus
Penicillium
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Eurotiales
Tricholoma matsutake
Common name:
Pine mushroom
Genus
Tricholoma
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Agaricales
Penicillium chrysogenum
Common name:
Penicillin
Genus
Penicillium
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Eurotiales
Penicillium roqueforti
Common name:
Roquefort cheese
Genus
Penicillium
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Eurotiales
Tricholoma matsutake
Common name:
Pine mushroom
Genus
Tricholoma
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Agaricales
Penicillium chrysogenum
Common name:
Penicillin
Genus
Penicillium
Family:
Tricholomataceae
Order:
Eurotiales
Family (Fungi): Tricholomataceae
The Tricholomataceae are a large family of mushrooms within the Agaricales. Originally a classic "wastebasket taxon", the family included any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genera in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to e.g. the Amanitaceae, Lepiotaceae, Hygrophoraceae, Pluteaceae, or Entolomataceae.
The name derives from the Greek trichos (τριχος) meaning hair and loma (λωμα) meaning fringe or border, although not all members display this feature.
The name "Tricholomataceae" is seen as having validity in describing Tricholoma and its close relatives, and whatever other genera can at some future point be described as part of a monophyletic family including Tricholoma. To that end, the International Botanical Congress has voted on two occasions (1988 and 2006) to conserve the name "Tricholomataceae" against competing names. This decision does not invalidate the use of segregate families from the Tricholomataceae, but simply validates the continued use of Tricholomataceae.