Entoloma quadratum

Entoloma quadratum is a species of agaric fungus in the family Entolomataceae. The fungus was originally described as Agaricus quadratus by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1859;[3] Egon Horak transferred it to Entoloma in 1976.[4] It is found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.[5]

Entoloma quadratum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Entolomataceae
Genus:
Entoloma
Species:
E. quadratum
Binomial name
Entoloma quadratum
Synonyms[1]
  • Agaricus quadratus Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1859)
  • Nolanea quadrata (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. (1887)
  • Inocephalus quadratus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) T.J.Baroni (2000)[2]

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Entoloma quadratum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) E. Horak". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
  2. Baroni TJ, Halling RE (2000). "Some Entolomataceae (Agaricales) from Costa Rica". Brittonia. 52: 121–35. doi:10.2307/2666502.
  3. Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA (1859). "Centuries of North American fungi". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (III): 284–96.
  4. Horak E. (1976). "On cuboid-spored species of Entoloma (Agaricales)". Sydowia. 28 (1–6): 190.
  5. Zhishu B, Zheng G, Taihui L (1993). The Macrofungus Flora of China's Guangdong Province. New York, New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 360–1.


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