Hypholoma dispersum

Appearance

Cap:
1-4cm across, bell-shaped, but sometimes expanding to convex or even flat with an umbo; "tawny to tawny-orange, fading to yellowish"; smooth, non-viscid, margin often hung with veil remnants, (Arora), 1-3.5(4)cm across, conic to convex, broadly umbonate when old; variable color, only subhygrophanous [somewhat hygrophanous], orange-tawny to tawny at first, becoming yellowish to sordid olivaceous toward margin, fading slowly to sordid yellow or buff; lubricous when moist, bald on disc and faintly silky near appendiculate margin, not striate, (Smith)
Flesh:
thin (Arora, Smith)
Gills:
usually adnate, but sometimes seceding, close; "pallid, becoming dingy olive or olive-gray, then finally purple-brown with paler edges", (Arora), adnate, close, broad; white to whitish at first, becoming sordid olive and finally purplish brown, with whitish edges, (Smith)
Stem:
6-12cm x 0.2-0.5cm, "equal, usually long and slender, rather tough and pliant but sometimes also brittle"; yellowish in upper part, brown to dark reddish brown in lower part, (Arora), 6-10cm x 0.2-0.5cm, equal above slightly enlarged base; brittle to tough and pliant (in large fruitbodies); lower part dark reddish brown to bister beneath the fibrils, upper part pale and yellowish; covered by a dense silky-fibrillose layer to near the pruinose top, "at times with faint fibrillose patches or subannular fibrillose zones over lower portion", base more or less strigose [coarsely hairy], (Smith)
Veil:
fibrillose or cobwebby, evanescent [fleeting] or leaving fibrillose zone on upper stem, (Arora)

Naming

Naematoloma dispersum

Habitat

widely scattered to gregarious in humus and debris under conifers, (Arora), "single to gregarious on debris under conifers or around and on very rotten conifer wood, often abundant or chipdirt, sawdust, etc."