The North American species of Pholiota, by Alexander H. Smith and L. R. Hesler.

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The North American Species of Pholiota

7. Lamellae with pale yellow margins and pallid faces when young;
stipe at first with scattered gelatinous scales below the annulus or
annular zone....................P. hiemalis
7. N o t as a b o v e............................................................................... 8
8. Base of stipe surrounded by olive-yellow to tawny pubescence;
pileus scales broad at base (~ 3 mm).............. P. subvelutipes
8. Not as above.................... 9
9. Young lamellae distinctly yellow.... 10
9. Young lamellae pallid to white at first........................................ 12
10. Pileus whitish; scales yellow.. see P. caespitosa
10. Pileus rich yellow, scales fulvous................................. 11
11. Some specimens in a cluster with a thick heavy subpersistent annulus; on wood of conifers..... P. filamenltosa
11. Annulus never formed (veil-line merely a thin fibrillose zone);
mostly on wood of hardwoods P. squarroso-adiposa
12. Pileus covered with broad tawny scales; young gills pallid; stipe
increasingly scaly downward from veil line; on wood of conifers.................................P. b i ti s
12. Not as above 13
13. Pileus squamulose with minute dotlike scales; stipe white to avellaneous. 14
13. Not as above..........15
14. Fusoid chrysocystidia scattered to abundant in hymenium; some
cheilocystidia capitate and head with thickened bright yellow
walls revived in KOH.............P. simulans
14. Cheilocystidia not as above; pleurocystidia clavate to filamentous....................................................................................... P. a n g s ti p e s
15. Hyphae of pileus context bright red in Melzer's P. limonella
15. Hyphae not as above................. see P. rigidipes
105. Pholiota flammans (Fr.) Kummer, Der Fiihrer in die Pilzkunde
p. 84. 1871.
Agaricus flanrnmans Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 244. 1821.
Hypodendrum flamnans (Fr.) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 261. 1912.
Pholiota kauffmaniana Smith. Mycologia 36: 254. 1944.
Illustrations: Text figs. 211-213; p1. 47.
Pileus (3) 4-8 (10) cm broad, obtusely conic becoming broadly umbonate, at times the umbo obsolete, surface viscid beneath a covering of
recurved fibrillose scales, glabrescent at times in age, the margin often
fringed with veil remnants as a thin sheet or in patches, color a brilliant
yellow ("picric-yellow") over all including the veil remnants, at times
"lemon-chrome" to "deep-chrome" or "raw-sienna," disc at times tawny
in age. Context firm, pliant, thick, yellow and with a greenish yellow line
next to the gills; odor and taste mild.
Lamellae sharply adnexed, "picric-yellow," staining dingy brown