Common Name: none

Synonym: Tricholomopsis platyphylla (Persoon: Fries) Singer

Pileus

Cap 6.0-9.0 (11.0) cm broad, convex, becoming plano-convex to plano-depressed; margin incurved, then decurved, wavy to indented; surface dry, grey-brown, appearing streaked from appressed fibrils over a pallid ground color, the disc sometimes darker and tomentose; context firm, white, unchanging, thin at the margin, up to 1.0 cm thick at the disc; odor and taste mild.

Lamellae

Gills adnexed to notched, distant, broad, up to 1.0 cm, cream to pale grey, edges often torn in age; lamellulae up to 4-seried.

Stipe

Stipe 7.0-12.0 cm long, 1.0-2.0 cm thick, more or less equal, occasionally enlarged at the base, stuffed to hollow at maturity; surface pruinose at apex, the lower portion streaked with innate pale brown fibrils, white rhizomorphs at base; partial veil absent.

Spores

Spores 7.5-9.0 x 5.0-6.0 µm, ovate to elliptical, thin-walled, smooth, hilar appendage apparent, inamyloid; spore print white.

Habitat

Solitary, scattered, to occasionally clustered, on or near rotting logs and stumps, both hardwoods and conifers; fruiting spring and fall; uncommon.

Edibility

Questionable; some adverse reactions have been reported.

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