Clitocybe trulliformis

Appearance

Cap:
1-5cm across, "very broadly convex quickly becoming flatter and then broadly funnel-shaped, sometimes with a slightly wavy margin; gray to pale gray with a dark gray, sometimes almost blackish disc and a pale margin; dry, velvety, or with minute felty scales on the disc, sometimes becoming lined with age", (Phillips), (0.7)1.5-4(5)cm across, convex becoming flat, finally broadly infundibuliform [funnel-shaped], broadly undulate [wavy] at times; grayish to grayish brown, "darkest on the disc and sometimes blackish, margin whitish at times"; dry, disc velvety to minutely furfuraceous-scaly, coating appressed near margin, at times rivulose [marked with river-like lines] when old, margin not striate, (Bigelow)
Flesh:
thin; whitish, (Phillips, Bigelow)
Gills:
adnate to decurrent, close, narrow; whitish to creamy yellow, (Phillips), adnate to short-decurrent at first, becoming moderately to long-decurrent, close to subdistant, narrow ( 0.1-0.3cm broad), usually forked, interveined or anastomosing at times; whitish to pale yellowish ("ivory yellow", "waxy yellow"), (Bigelow)
Stem:
1-4.5cm x 0.1-0.5cm, solid, narrowing slightly toward the base; "pale dirty fawn or pale greenish buff; smooth or with minute hairy furrows", "base with some rhizoids and white mycelium", (Phillips), 1-4.5cm x 0.15-0.5cm at top, equal or narrowing downward slightly, solid; pale sordid buff to pale olivaceous buff or pale cinereous ("deep olive buff"), darker than gills but paler than cap; bald or innately fibrillose-striate, "base usually with whitish mycelium and a few rhizoids", (Bigelow)

Naming

Clitocybe parilis

Habitat

scattered or in groups on leaf litter or debris under conifers or hardwoods, (Phillips), scattered or gregarious on humus under conifers or hardwoods, "May to October, but chiefly in July and August", (Bigelow), spring, summer, fall