Summary: Subgenus Phlegmacium. Features include 1) a lubricous, pale ocher cap with a margin that is inrolled for a long time, 2) thick, white flesh, 3) crowded, whitish young gills, 4) a pale whitish stem with a brownish marginate bulb, 5) a whitish veil, 6) a mild odor and taste, 7) growth in coniferous forests, and 8) microscopic characters. The description is derived from Breitenbach(5) except where noted.
DNA sequencing indicates its presence in BC (Harrower(1)). It is also found in Europe including Switzerland, (Breitenbach(5)).
Cap: 4-6cm across, hemispheric when young, later convex to flat, "margin inrolled for a long time"; light yellow-ocher to reddish ocher ["pale cap" is also referred to as a characteristic feature]; "smooth, dull when dry, lubricous and shiny when moist", (Breitenbach), light ocher, loam or cardboard-brown, possibly with slight rust tone (Moser)
Flesh: thick; white
Gills: broadly attached, narrow, 85-127 reaching stem, 1-3 subgills between neighboring gills; whitish becoming gray-ocher to gray-brown; "edges slightly crenate"
Stem: 3.5-5(6)cm x 1.5-2.2cm, cylindric, solid, fragile, marginate bulb up to 3.5cm wide; stem "cream-colored and white-fibrillose", bulb ocher-brown to reddish brown, "especially the margin of the bulb"
Veil: margin joined to bulb of stem "by a white, filamentous cortina when young"
Microscopic spores: spores 9.1-11.5 x 5.8-6.8 microns, amygdaliform [almond-shaped] to citriform [lemon-shaped], moderately verrucose; reddish ocher; basidia 4-spored, 26-32 x 8-9.5 microns, clavate, with basal clamp connection; no pleurocystidia, marginal cells 15-35 x 3.5-5 microns, cylindric; septa with clamp connections, (Breitenbach), spores 9-10(11) x 6-6.5 microns, (Moser)
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