Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Armillaria mellea
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
(Vahl) P.Kumm.
Common names
Honey Fungus, Honey Mushroom
Names in other languages (45)Armillaire couleur de miel, Armillaire couleur de miel, Armillaire des feuillus, Bal Mantarı, Cama-sec de soca, Chiodino, Cogumelo de mel, Echte honingzwam, Ffwng Melog, Flota d'alzina, Gielen Hunnegpilz, Goldgelber Hallimasch, Gyűrűs tuskógomba, Hongo cazahuate, Honiggelber Hallimasch, Medena puza, Medenjača, Mraznica, Opieńka miodowa, Paprastasis kelmutis, Parastā celmene, Puza, Stuppling, ekte honningsopp, harilik külmaseen, mesi-külmaseen, podpňovka obyčajná, sivorumena mraznica, sydlig honungsskivling, václavka obecná, Ægte honningsvamp, Обикновена пънчушка, Опеньок осінній, Опёнок настоящий, Կոճղասունկ աշնանային, צמידנית דבש, ᎤᏂᎶᏇ, ᏧᏂᎶᏇ, ナラタケ, ハリガネタケ, 假蜜環菌, 榛菇, 榛蘑, 蜜环菌, 蜜環菌, 뽕나무버섯
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Fungi
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Basidiomycota
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Agaricomycetes
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Agaricales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Physalacriaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Armillaria
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
mellea
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Armillaria mellea
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-22 09:48.
Photo of Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
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Photo of Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
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Photo of Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
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Photo of Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
Photo: Chris Sulots · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
Photo: Dorothy Johnson · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
Photo: Irina Mitine · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-22 09:48.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

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has as a host 49 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Peach Prunus persica Rosaceae has as a host 29 not compared
Eriobotrya japonica Rosaceae has as a host 9 no location
Avocado Persea americana Lauraceae has as a host 9 no location
Asian Plum Prunus armeniaca Rosaceae has as a host 8 no location
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interacts with 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Peach Prunus persica Rosaceae interacts with 1 no location
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is a pathogen of 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. It is a narrow block, and it cannot be the only one that is read: the most frequent term in the catalogue is the one above, which declares no harm, so much of what a reader would call a pest arrives there instead.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Peach Prunus persica Rosaceae is a pathogen of 1 not compared
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.