| 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: |
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 Pholiota highlandensis - DK: kul-skælhat UK: Bonfire Scalycap |
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-92.443 |
