It is recognised by the dry scaly cap and stem which helps to distinguish it from the sticky capped P. aurivella (Fries) Kummer with similar habitat preferences but wider spores (6-9 × 4-5 µm). P. adiposa (Fries) Kummer is found on beech trees and it, too, has a viscid cap, but the spores are 5-6 × 3-4 µm in dimensions.
Illustrations: Hvass 134; LH 149; WD 542.
Plate 11. Fleshy fungi: Spores rust-brown and borne on gills
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(c) Saprophytes—wood inhabiting or lignicolous agarics
Hypholoma fasciculare (Fries) Kummer Sulphur-tuft
Cap: width 20-50 mm. Stem: width 6-13 mm; length 40-100 mm.
Description:
Cap: sulphur-yellow, flushed with sand-colour or red-brown at centre then ochraceous yellow throughout, convex at first with margin incurved and clothed with fibrillose remnants of a yellow-olive veil, but then becoming flattened and losing evidence of that veil.