Flammulaster muricatus (Fr.) Watling
Notes R. bot. Gdn Edinb. 28(1): 66. 1967

Common Name: none

• Description

  For descriptions see Vellinga and Knudsen & Vesterholt (2008).

• Habitat

  Solitary to scattered on or inside well-rotted hardwood trees, especially tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus). Not common, fall to spring.

• Edibility

  Unkown.

• Comments

  The reddish-ochraceous-brown coloration, finely floccose stipe and cap, and habitat on rotting wood is distinctive.  Phaeomarasmius erinaceus has a dark reddish brown spiky tufted tomentose cap and stipe, growing on oak and tanoak.

• References

  Knudsen, H. & Vesterholt, J. ed. (2008). Funga Nordica: Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. Nordsvamp: Copenhagen, Denmark. 965 p. (PDF)
  Knudsen, H. & Vesterholt, J. ed. (2012). Funga Nordica: Agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid, cyphelloid and gastroid genera. Vol. 2. Nordsvamp: Copenhagen, Denmark. 572 p.
  Siegel, N. & Schwarz, C. (2016). Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 601 p.
  Watling, R. 1967. The genus Flammulaster. Notes from the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh. 28:65-72
  Vellinga, E.C. (1986). The genus Flammulaster (Agaricales) in the Netherlands and adjacent regions. Persoonia 13(1): 1-26. (PDF)
  

• Other Descriptions and Photos
  Main Photo
  • Noah Siegel: Flammulaster muricatus (CP)
  • Alan Rockefeller: Flammulaster muricatus (CP)
  • Alan Rockefeller: Flammulaster muricatus (CP)
  • Darvin DeShazer: Flammulaster muricatus (CP)
  • Mushroom Observer: Flammulaster muricatus (CP)
  • iNaturalist: Flammulaster muricatus (CP)
    

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