Presente,principalmente in zone bruciate , quasi in maniera infestante , di conifere sia in pinete litoranee che di montagna.
Questo è un ritrovamento in pineta ( P. nigra) a 900 mt ca.
Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) A.H. Sm. & Hesler, The North American species of Pholiota: 287 (1968)
Synonymy:
Agaricus carbonarius Fr., Observ. mycol. (Havniae) 2: 33 (1818)
Agaricus highlandensis Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. 24: 67 (1872) [1871]
Chalymmota carbonaria (Fr.) P. Karst., Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: xxvii (1879)
Dryophila carbonaria (Fr.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 70 (1886)
Flammula carbonaria (Fr.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 82 (1871)
Flammula carbonaria var. gigantea J.E. Lange, Fl. Agaric. Danic. 5(Taxon. Consp.): lV, 102 (1940)
Flammula gigantea (J.E. Lange) M.M. Moser, Sydowia 3(1-6): 372 (1949)
Flammula highlandensis Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. 50: 138 (1898) [1897]
Gymnopilus carbonarius (Fr.) Murrill, Mycologia 4(5): 256 (1912)
Gymnopilus highlandensis (Peck) Murrill, N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 10(2) (1917)
Inocybe carbonaria (Fr.) Roze, Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 23: 113 (1876)
Naucoria highlandensis (Peck) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 845 (1887)
Pholiota carbonaria (Fr.) Singer, Lilloa 22: 517 (1951) [1949]
Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Quadr. & Lunghini, Quad. Accad. Naz. Lincei 264: 111 (1990)
Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Singer, Lilloa 25: 343 (1952) [1951]
Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) A.H. Sm. & Hesler, Quad. Accad. Naz. Lincei 11: 264 (1968) f. highlandensis
Pholiota highlandensis f. persicina (P.D. Orton) Holec, Libri Botanici 20: 118 (2001)
Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Quadr. & Lunghini, Quad. Accad. Naz. Lincei 264: 111 (1990) var. highlandensis
Pholiota persicina P.D. Orton, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 91(4): 567 (1988)