| Generic short diagnoses:
A rather, striking, dark, dark-spored agaric, with squamulose stipe and prominent velar scales on the pileus; without chrysocystidia, with smooth, non-poroid, amygdaliform spores. |
Species example: |

Pholiota albocrenulata |
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe Russia (Usuri), 1998 |
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