Pholiota aurivella
English: Golden Scalycap Mushroom; High-thronged slippery slipper; Goldfell slippery slipper.
German: Goldfell-Schüppling; Hochthronenden Schüppling.
Clades: Strophariaceae.
Habitat: forest; grows in clusters on live or dead trees.
Region: New Zealand, southern Canada, United States, American West and Southwest.
Mycology
Type: sticky or slimy when moist; fruiting late summer and fall; the fungus can take root only in wounded or rotten parts of the tree.
Use: inedible.