Collybia sensu lato     SemiTribe

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Spore print "light-colored": white or buff, sometimes tinged with pink or tan. Greenish and (except for the Russulales) yellow spore prints also go here
Stalk fibrous, not fracturing like a piece of chalk

None of the special features distinguishing the other white-spored genera:
Gills not free, as in the Lepiotas and Amanitas
Basidia not extra-long, as in the Hygrophoraceae
Spores smooth, except for Lentinellus

Growing on the ground

Woodland Normal Trich     Tribe Found in woods Not rooting

Links from Look-alikes Grey Brown LignoTrich     Subtribe Fruiting body medium-sized to large Cap grey to brown, sometimes with radiating with dark brown to black fibrils All else white or concolorous with cap Growing on wood or duff

Diagnosis

• Cap up to 2" across, occasionally larger; sometimes purplish
  
• Usually growing on leaves and duff rather than directly on the ground

Comments

Narrow down your identification:

• Spore deposit whitish
  
• Fruiting bodies marcescent
  
• Spores neither cyanophilous nor dextrinoid

• Spores print pinkish; spores cyanophilous and at least some of them dextrinoid

Lookalikes: Mycena pura Cap up to 2" across, hygrophanous; mainly some shade of lilac or pink, but perhaps with a little yellow, grey or blue mixed in as well Odor and taste radish-like Scattered or in small groups on forest litter

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