MycoKey : the genus Pholiota

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 squarrosa - DK: krumskællet skælhat UK: Shaggy Scalycap
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-98.177

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