| Generic short diagnoses:
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 or without germ pore, mostly with chrysocystidia. |
Species example: |

Pholiota flammans - DK: flamme-skælhat UK: Flaming Scalycap |
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-99.477 |
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