English translation of the original

English translation of the original French description — A large Pholiota, with castaneous brown pileus and stipe ornamented with big yellow floccules. Pileus 4–9 cm, cuticle viscid, bright brown (like Suillus luteus); lamellae rather broad (≤1 cm), rather dense, emarginate, pale olivaceous yellow or somewhat darker; stipe 3–7 × 1–1.2 cm, subcylindrical, distinctively 166 ... Holec & Kolaříkornamented (starting several cm under the lamellae) by bright yellow floccules which are very characteristic (scales or thick bands); context thick, white, odour weak, of leather. Spores 5.5–7.5(–8.5) × (4.5–)5–5.5 µm, ovoid with an indistinct germ pore and wall rather dark for a Pholiota s.str.; cystidia variable, clavate, ventricose or lageniform, 40–60 × 12–15 µm, ± yellow on apex in ammonia but only slightly cyanophilous in C4B; cheilocystidia of the same type but ± intermixed with marginal cells of variable shape, clavate, fusiform or lageniform and ± constricted, hyaline; epicutis a remarkably gelatinized ixotrichoderm, hyphae 2–5 µm; pigment of several types (mixed) or membranally encrusting towards the subcutis; clamps numerous.