Clitocybe mitis

Appearance

Cap: 3.4-11cm across, flat with enrolled margin, disc shallowly depressed, becoming broadly infundibuliform [funnel-shaped]; reddish brown to orange brown or rust color, somewhat paler when old or in dry weather (near pale tan to dark yellow brown); when moist but fibrillose when dry, at times concentrically rivulose [with river-like lines] or diffracted-scaly, margin cottony at times when young, not striate
Flesh: thin except on disc, pliant, whitish, often with cinnamon tint near cap surface
Gills: short-decurrent to long-decurrent at times even and forming a collar on stem, close to subdistant, broad (.4-.8cm), forked at times, whitish; intervened, faces veined at times
Stem: 2.5-6(8)cm x .4-1.4cm at top, "equal or either end enlarged", somewhat eccentric [off-center] or compressed at times, stuffed becoming hollow; ground color as cap or paler; fibrils whitish; fibrillose-striate, base with whitish momentum at times
Odor: not distinctive

Distribution

WA, OR, ID, AK, CO and WY

Habitat

single to scattered, gregarious or subcespitose [more or less in tufts], on needle beds under spruce or larch