Description:
mushroom
Fruiting Body: cap 4-16 cm;stalk central to off-center, 5-8 cm long x 5-15 mm diameter, equal. Spore Print Color: rusty brown. Spores: basidiospores 7-9.5 (11) x 4.5-6 micro;m, broadly elliptic to oblong, smooth, reddish brown in KOH, tawnyin Melzer's.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: slimy yellowish to tawny cap with scales, dry scaly stalk, found on wood

Diagnostic microscopic feature: reddish brown spores in KOH,pleurocystidia fusoid or sloghtly branched, cheilocystidia subfusoid to fusoid-ventricose, caulocystidia none

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on logs and decaying wood of hardwoods and conifers

Habitat: deciduous woods and coniferous

Fruiting Season: summer, fall, early winter