How to identify it?
Cap
Cap 2-6 cm across, rounded, sometimes wavy cap; brown, tan, or orangish; surface viscid, hygrophanous, with innate fibrils. Flesh soft, cream to yellowish. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Gills
Gills adnexed to adnate, cream-yellow to pale yellowish-buff, brown in age, subdistant, turning brown where bruised.
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Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Strophariaceae Genus
Scalycaps Species
Slender pholiota