False Yellowfoot

Appearance

Cap: 1-4 cm across; planoconvex with an inrolled margin at first, becoming nearly flat and centrally depressed; moist when fresh; very finely scurfy or scaly with gray-brown to yellow-brown fibers and scales; yellowish underneath the brown material; fading.

Gills: Running down the stem; distant or nearly so; yellow to pale yellow or orangish yellow.

Stem: 2-4 cm long and up to 3 mm thick; more or less equal; bald or very minutely hairy; yellow to orange-yellow or nearly whitish.

Flesh: Thin; orangish to yellowish.

Habitat

Saprobic on the well decayed wood of conifers; growing alone, scattered, or, more often, gregariously