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Pholiota malicola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Strophariaceae
Genus:	Pholiota
Species:	P. malicola
Binomial name
Pholiota malicola (Kauffman) A.H.Sm. (1934)
Synonyms
Flammula malicola Kauffman (1926)

Pholiota malicola, commonly known as the forgettable pholiota, is an inedible species of fungus in the mushroom family Strophariaceae. Originally called Flammula malicola by mycologist Calvin Henry Kauffman in 1926, it was transferred to the genus Pholiota by Alexander H. Smith in 1934. It is found in North America and Australia.

See also

• List of Pholiota species

References

Pholiota malicolaMycological characteristics
	Gills on hymenium
	Cap is convex or umbonate
	Hymenium is adnexed
	Stipe is bare or has a ring
	Spore print is brown
	Ecology is saprotrophic
	Edibility is unknown or inedible

1. Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
2. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
3. Smith AH (1934). "New and unusual agarics from Michigan". Annales Mycologici. 32: 471–484.
4. Hongo T, Mills AK (1988). "Five noteworthy larger fungi new to Tasmania Australia". Nippon Kingakukai Kaiho. 29 (4): 351–358. ISSN 0029-0289.

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