Summary:
Subgenus Telamonia Section Alboambiti. Features include a small, hygrophanous, reddish brown cap with a white edge, a whitish, silky-fibrillose stem that has pale brown flesh, and almond-shaped spores. The description is derived from Niskanen(3).

Cap:
2-4cm across, hemispheric becoming low convex to almost flat with low broad umbo; strongly hygrophanous, reddish brown with center dark reddish brown; dry, matte, edge whitish-fibrillose

Flesh:
in cap dark reddish brown, in stem pale brown

Gills:
adnexed to emarginate, moderately broad, moderately thick, medium spaced; "at first pale brown, later dark brown"; edge whitish

Stem:
5-7cm x 0.3-0.5cm at top, 0.5-0.8cm wide at base, "slightly clavate to clavate"; whitish silky-fibrillose, when old or when handled the fibrillosity lost and the stem colored more like the stem flesh; basal mycelium white at first

Veil:
universal veil white and fairly sparse

Odor:
indistinct

Microscopic spores:
spores 7.5-8.5(9.0) x 5.0-6.0 microns, "amygdaloid to broadly amygdaloid, moderately verrucose, somewhat more strongly ornamented at the apex, moderately to fairly strongly dextrinoid"; basidia 4-spored, 25-32 x 7-8.5 microns, clavate, "with yellow to yellow brown granulose contents" in Melzer''s reagent; gill trama hyphae smooth in Melzer''s reagent; clamp connections present

Spore deposit:
[presumably a shade of brown]

Notes:
It is known from BC and WA, (Niskanen(3)). The type is from WA. Harrower(1) #145 is from BC.

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