MycoKey : the species Pholiota flammans

Generic short diagnoses: Typically rather fleshy to very fleshy, brown-spored, often lignicolous agarics with more or less evident scales on more or less slimy pileus and sometimes stipe; spores thick-walled, with, rarely without germ pore, with or without chrysocystidia.


Pholiota flammans - DK: flamme-skælhat, UK: Flaming Scalycap

Pholiota flammans , flamme-skælhat, Flaming Scalycap, svovelskjellsopp, svaveltofsskivling, Goudgele bundelzwam, Feuer-Schüppling, Pholiote couleur feu
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-99.477

These pictures are part of the MycoKey project.
You can use this link to view larger versions and more information in the MycoKey online version. You can also download and install the full MycoKey project to get thousands of pictures along with detailed generic descriptions, references and interactive, synoptical (multi-access) keys to genera of fungi in Northern Europe.

what is MycoKey? | borrow pictures? | list of genera |MycoKey home