Other Clitocybes     Section

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

Found in woods
Not rooting

Gills attached to decurrent
Coloration usually white to greyish brown, sometimes purple or with purple tones
Never with a ring of any kind

Gills attached to decurrent, crowded
Cap glabrous, small to very large; often aging into a funnel shape
Spore print often tinged with pink or buff
Look for things here if they have non-free gills and don't fit the other taxa

Diagnosis

• Stalk equal
  
• Fruiting body not all white, or with purple colors

Narrow down your identification:

Cap up to 3" across; funnel-shaped in maturity; dark brown, stalk concolorous
Gills light brown or greyish brown to brown
In humus and on rotting logs, in woods and at their edges

Cap up to 3" across; tan to pinkish brown; color fading and cap becoming deeply funnel-shaped in age; margin often wavy
Stalk white, spongy, enlarging slightly downward, hollow in age
Under hardwoods, especially oak

Cap blue-green, fading to dingy tan with blue-green tinges
Strong odor of anise
Spore print pinkish cream
Under hardwoods, especially oak

Cap orange cinnamon to orange brown; often with minute scales or hairs
Stalk concolorous or a little darker
On ground or moss in conifer woods

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