Pholiota bakerensis Smith & Hesler Cap 2-5cm across, broadly convex when young, then flatter with disc shallowly depressed in age, with an arched margin; yellowish tawny brown on the disc, paler, more fawn-colored toward the margin; sticky, opaque, with one or more rows of appressed hairy scales glued to the surface. Gills adnate, short decurrent by a tooth, close, edges saw-like; tawny olive. Stem 30-50 x 3-5mm, solid or hollowed by worms; clay color over lower part, surface pallid from thin coating of pale buff hairs; an evanescent hairy zone toward the top. Flesh thin, pliant; pale, watery brown. Odor faintly fragrant. Taste mild. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, tiny pore at apex, 7-9 x 4-5µ. Deposit cigar brown. Pleurocystidia abundant. Habitat scattered on conifer sticks. Found in Washington State. Season September. Not edible. |