Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) A. H. Smith Charcoal pholiota
Cap: width 20-50 mm. Stem: width 4-8 mm; length 25-60 mm.
Description: [Plate 73].
Cap: convex then flattened and slightly umbonate, smooth, very sticky at first, but becoming shiny when dry, orange-yellow to sand-colour; the margin is first incurved and ornamented with filaments from the veil, but these are soon lost.
Stem: dirty yellow, darker towards the base, cylindric or narrowed downwards and covered in small fibrillose scales.
Gills: clay-coloured then dull brown, adnate and crowded.
Flesh: yellowish.
Spore-print: dull rust-brown.
Spores: medium-sized, ellipsoid, smooth, dull brown under the microscope and 7-8 × 3-4 µm in size.
Facial cystidia: spindle-shaped with obtuse apex.