Fungi 4 - Pholiota squarrosoides

Fungi 4 - Pholiota squarrosoides

Figure 1: Pholiota squarrosoides after picking


















Figure 2: Pholiota squarrosoides dried- underside of cap

Name: Pholiota squarrosoides
Common Name: Shaggy Scalycap
Family: Strophariaceae
Collection Date: 10/16/2016
Habitat: Decomposing stump
Location: James H. Barrow Field Station - Hiram College - Hiram Ohio
Description: Yellowish whitish scaly/spiney

Keying Guide used: Mushrooms Demystified - Key to Philota
Keying Steps: Key to Philota p385 1.) Not typically growing in ashes...3 3.) Not as above (if blue-greenish when young found in Eastern North America)...4 4.)Growing on wood (occasionally buried) or in wood chip mulch...5 5.) Not as above...6 6.) Not growing when the snow is melting, or if so then not as above...7 7.) Not as above; color or habitat different or stalk thinner and/or scalier...8 8.) Not with above features...9 9.) Not as above; if brightly colored then cap bald or with few scattered fibrillose veil remnants (one species tawny to whitish with erect or recurved scales)...11 11.) Not with above features...12 12.) Cap and stalk with prominent erect or recurved scales (which may be obliterated or flattened somewhat in age); stalk typically less than 1.5 cm thick...13 13.) Cap often dry at first but a viscid layer beneath the scales usually evident in age; gills not greenish tinged; o wood or ground...14 14.) Typically found on hardwood stumps or logs; cap and stalk very scaly when young, the scales tawny or paler... P. squarrosoides
Keying Guide Source: Arora, D. (1986). Mushrooms Demystified. Ten Speed Press.