Public Note:
taste mild, cap viscid, yellow gill edge, chrysocystidia few as pleuro, present as cheilo but gill edge with resin-like yellow encrustation. Small number of persistent squamules on cap regularly distributed, tips recurved and projecting from slime, spores with germ-pore 8.3 x 5um. Smell indistinct. FAN keys to squarrusoides/janii but neither. Had this before 9382, 8917 - 9086 has thicker stem but otherwise similar. Egon has the S. American P. subflammans looking similar. From Flora del T de F that has chrysocystidia 25-40 x 8-11um with attenuated apex, cap hyphae 6-12um, gelatinised, encrusted, reniform spores with germ pore (P. aurantioalbida without germ pore), 5.5-7x3.5-4um, cap 5-40mm, with scales honey to ochraceous, stem 2-5cm x 3-5mm, cortina ochraceous-ferrugineus, densley scaly, no odour, cheilocystidia 20-35x5-7um cylindrical. My collections 8917, 9063, 9086, 9518, 9382 all look like the same taxon and they are all conistent with P. subflammans even tho most of them are from urban environments or exotic substrates. 8917 needs reassessing for presence of chrysocystidia. Relationship to P. squarrusoides and PDD71265 and P. subflammans ZT-67-257 needs assessing. P. squarrosipes and P. subflammans are perhaps the same species and subflammans has priority. Currently no sequenced material of squarrosipes. P. squarrusoides has convincing USA sequences elsewhere.