Sticky Scalycap - Pholiota gummosa

Cap is 2 to 5 cm across; pale cream or beige to light ochre with olive tints; convex, becoming flatter and sometimes retaining a small umbo; covered in large dark ochre adpressed scales spaced well apart; the scales tend to fall off or get washed off old caps. Gills are adnate; cream becoming rusty brown.

On moss-covered rotting stumps and dead roots.

June to October in Britain.

It is a saprophytic fungus, consuming wood that is already dead. 

Widespread in the southern half of Britain, but rather infrequent.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.