pholiota (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Pholiota*:
NOUN	plant	Pholiota, genus Pholiota	genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus

English > *Pholiota*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood.
Synonym	genus Pholiota
Member of	Strophariaceae, family Strophariaceae	sometimes included in family Agaricaceae
Members	Pholiota astragalina	A fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk
	Pholiota aurea, golden pholiota	A beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast
	Pholiota destruens	A large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap
	Pholiota flammans	A fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk
	Pholiota flavida	A fungus that grows in clusters on the ground
	Pholiota squarrosa, scaly pholiota	A gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales
	Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa	A gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks
	Pholiota squarrosoides	A pale buff fungus with tawny scales
	nameko, viscid mushroom, Pholiota nameko	One of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan
Broader	fungus genus	Includes lichen genera
Spanish	genus pholiota, pholiota
Catalan	genus pholiota, pholiota

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