Rhodophana nitellina

Appearance

Pileus
Cap 1.0-4.0 cm broad, convex, expanding to nearly plane, occasionally centrally depressed or with a low umbo; margin incurved in youth, translucent striate, becoming decurved to raised in age; surface, glabrous, hygrophanous, dull reddish-brown to orange-brown, drying to pinkish-buff or pale-tawny; context 1.0-2.0 mm thick at disc, firm, cream-buff, gradually tinged like the cap when cut or injured; odor and taste farinaceous.

Lamellae
Gills adnexed to notched, close, relatively broad, up to 3.0 mm wide, at first cream-colored, darkening slightly with age; lamellulae in three to four series.

Stipe
Stipe 2.0-4.0 cm long, 2.0-5.0 mm thick, stuffed, brittle, more or less equal, the base sometimes pointed; surface of apex pruinose, pallid to buff, elsewhere glabrous, colored like the cap; partial veil absent.

Naming

Rhodocybe nitellina
Clitopilus nitellinus

Habitat

Scattered to gregarious on humus and soil under conifers in montane regions in the spring; fall and winter along the coast in mixed hardwood-conifer woods.