Phaeocollybia scatesiae
Mycologia 64(5): 1146. 1972.
Common Name: none
For descriptions see Norvell & Exeter, Siegel et al., and Smith & Trappe.
Densely clustered in montaine and costal coniferous forests.
Unknown.
Phaeocollybia scatesiae can be distinguished by its densely clustered fruiting habit with many differently aged fruitbodies emerging from one point (often producing over 100 fruitbodies in one single mound), highly glutinous, pale to dark yellow-brown caps, hollow stipes, and orangish red stains on lower stipe.
Arora, D. (1986). Mushrooms Demystified. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 959 p.
Norvell, L.L. (1998). Observations on development, morphology and biology in Phaeocollybia. Mycological Research 102(5): 615-630.
Norvell, L. & Exeter, R.L. (2009). Phaeocollybia of Pacific Northwest North America. US Department of Interior, BLM: Salem, OR. 229 p. (PDF)
Siegel, N., Vellinga, E.C., Schwarz, C., Castellano, M.A. & Ikeda, D. (2019). A Field Guide to the Rare Fungi of California's National Forests. Bookmobile: Minneapolis, MN. 313 p. (PDF)
Smith, A.H. & Trappe, J.M. (1972). The Higher Fungi of Oregon's Cascade Head Experimental Forest and Vicinity: I. The Genus Phaeocollybia (Agaricales) and Notes and Descriptions of Other Species in the Agaricales. Mycologia 64(5): 1138-1153.
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