Pholiota mutabilis
Also called Kuehneromyces mutabilis

Found on Gales Creek Hike H430 on 7/26/16

My first impression was that this was either
Hypholoma fasciculare (Sulfur Tuft) or Hypholoma capnoides
It did not have a bitter taste so I was leaning to Hypholoma capnoides
However, Hypholoma capnoides does not have a ring and this does.

I could not get a spore print,
However, from the deposit on the stipe
it appears to have dark brown or rusty Bronw spores

Joe noted the scales on the cap (in the pictures taken in the field)
The scales on the cap and on the stipe and
the dull brown (with a rusty tinge) spores point to Pholiota

The "hygrophanous" cap,
the well developed ring and
a stipe where the ring separates the bare,
smooth light cinnamon upper part
from the darker brown shaggily scaly lower part
point to Pholiota mutabilis.

Pholiota mutabilis (synonym Kuehneromyces mutabilis)
is edible but the references do not recomend eating it because
it is easily confused with the deadly Galerina marginata
even by knowledgeable people
It is noted that the stem below the ring is scaly in K. mutabilis,
but in Galerina marginata it is normally fibrously and silky.
Also K. mutabilis has a pleasant mushroom smell and mild taste,
whereas G. marginata tastes and smells mealy.

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