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Tricholoma imbricatum (Matt Knight)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tricholoma imbricatum is a species of agaric fungus in the family Tricholomataceae. Commonly known as the matt knight, it is found in Europe and North America, where it grows on the ground in coniferous forests. Fruit bodies have a brown to reddish-brown cap up to 9 cm (3.5 in) in diameter, and a stipe that is 3.5 to 4.5 cm (1.4 to 1.8 in) long by 1.0 to 1.2 cm (0.39 to 0.47 in) thick. The gills are initially whitish in color before developing reddish-brown spots.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
North Pennine Moors 254789 England, United Kingdom
North York Moors 108930 England, United Kingdom
Sefton Coast 11278 England, United Kingdom

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Citations

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0