Summary:
Subgenus Dermocybe. Features include 1) hemispheric to flat cap that is grayish brown to light brown developing some reddish shades, 2) yellowish brown flesh, 3) medium spaced gills that are yellowish to grayish yellow, 4) cylindric stem that is orange white to orange gray but becomes washed with light brown to reddish brown, 5) universal veil mostly evanescent, 6) growth in conifer forests and bogs among Sphagnum in late summer and fall, and 7) microscopic characters. The description is derived from Niskanen(5).

Cap:
1.5-4.5cm, hemispheric, then low convex to almost flat "with a low umbo or without an umbo"; "grayish brown to light brown when young but taking on some reddish shades during maturation and age and finally with some areas near light brown to reddish brown"; almost bald to finely appressed scaly

Flesh:
yellowish brown in the cap and center of stem, colored as the surface near the stem surface

Gills:
medium spaced; grayish yellow "or slightly more yellow at first", darkening with spores

Stem:
5.0-6.5cm x 0.3-0.5cm at top, cylindric or slightly enlarged at base; "fundamentally orange white to orange gray but washed with a light brown to reddish brown color in older material"; basal mycelium yellowish white

Veil:
universal veil "mostly evanescent, probably yellowish white to pale yellow"

Microscopic spores:
spores 8.2-9.5(10) x 5-5.7 microns, amygdaloid [almond-shaped] to elliptic to more narrowly elliptic, moderately verrucose; basidia 4-spored; cap cuticle "yellow brown to orange brown in KOH", hyphae cylindric, 5-12 microns wide, subcutis somewhat developed; gill trama hyphae "pale purplish red in KOH"

Spore deposit:
[presumably a shade of brown]

Notes:
Collections have been made from BC, NB, and Finland.

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