Flammula

Flammula is a dark brown-spored genus of mushrooms that cause a decay of trees, on whose bases they often fruit, forming clusters of yellowish brown mushrooms.

Flammula
Flammula malicola in Meander Forest Reserve, Tasmania, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Hymenogastraceae
Genus:	Flammula (Fr.) P. Kumm. (1871)
Type species
Flammula flavida (Schaeff.:Fr.) P. Kumm.)(1871)
Species
Flammula alnicola Flammula flavida Flammula malicola

Taxonomy

For nearly a century, Flammula was considered to be a synonym of Pholiota, a mushroom genus in the Strophariaceae. Molecular analysis placed it outside of the Strophariaceae^[1][2][3] and specifically in the Hymenogastraceae.^[4] As a distinct genus, the name Flammula is currently used.^[5]