Pholiota sp.

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;">The fruit body is a mushroom with a cap atop a central stem. The caps vary in diameter from a centimetre or so to over 10 centimetres, but mostly no more than a few centimetres. Colours vary but browns are common.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;">The caps are often scaly or fibrillose and sticky to slimy.&nbsp; There is a partial veil which usually leaves remnants often as a definite ring of tissue around the stem (but sometimes just as fibrillose zone) and also as a raggedy edge around the margin of the cap. The stem is often scaly (at least in the lower section, below the veil remnant).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;">Spore print: brown (generally dull brown, sometimes slightly rusty).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;">The mushrooms appear mostly on dead wood but some species are found on the ground.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Look-alikes</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;">There are a number of genera that look similar, particularly to the smooth-capped <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pholiotas</em>. In our region <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gymnopilus</em> is a very common wood-inhabiting genus. It has a rust-brown spore print.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>