Golden Oyster Mushroom

Pleurotus citrinopileatus Singer

A species in the family Pleurotaceae, order Agaricales. Recorded under 18 common names across 17 languages.

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Classification

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pleurotaceae
Genus: Pleurotus

What it is called

English: Golden Oyster Mushroom
Swedish: citronmussling
Danish: Gul østershat
German: Zitronengelber Seitling, Zitronenseitling
Catalan: Orellana groga
Chinese: 金顶侧耳
Czech: hlíva žlutá
Dutch: Gele oesterzwam
Estonian: kuldservik
Hungarian: aranysárga laskagomba
Japanese: タモギタケ
Lithuanian: Geltonoji kreivabudė
Russian: Вёшенка лимонная
Slovak: hliva lievikovitá citrónová
Slovenian: citronasti ostrigar
Spanish: Hongo ostra dorado
Turkish: sitrino kayın mantarı

Also known as

Older literature may use these names. They all refer to the same species.

Pleurotus cornucopiae subsp. citrinopileatus (Singer) O.Hilber, 1993

Others in Pleurotus

Dendrosarcos cornucopiae Dendrosarcos cornucopiae Dendrosarcus cornucopiae Lentinus cornucopioides Lentinus klotzschii Pleurotus abieticola Pleurotus abscondens Pleurotus achilleae Pleurotus agaves Pleurotus albidus Pleurotus albipes Pleurotus allochrous

Classification and names from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (CC-BY 4.0).

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