Hypholoma dispersum

Features include 1) tawny to yellowish, non-viscid, often appendiculate cap, 2) pallid gills that become dingy olive or olive-gray before turning purple brown from spores, 3) long, yellowish to brownish stem with white fibrillose bands, 4) mild to bitter taste, 5) widely scattered to gregarious or single growth in humus and debris under conifers, and 6) dark spores. Var. idahoense differs from the typical variety in its paler colors of gills and top of stem, very bitter taste, cespitose [tufted].. more