Summary:
Features include an olivaceous brown umbonate cap, olivaceous young gills, an olive-green to olive-ocher stem with gray-brown to brownish yellow veil remnants, growth under hardwoods or more seldom spruce, and almond-shaped spores. Note that colors are described somewhat differently among the descriptions used here, especially of the veil.

Cap:
1.2-4.1cm across, "umbonate to almost convex" (also described as "usually acute and smooth"); olivaceous when young, (Knudsen), up to 4cm across, warm brown, margin paler, olive-yellow; fibrillose-fleecy +/- zoned, (Courtecuisse), 2.5-7cm across, hemispheric then convex, flattening with broad umbo; [color not given in description but appears light brownish gray with olive tinge in painting]; dry, finely fibrous, margin sharp, (Buczacki)

Flesh:
colored as surface (Courtecuisse), olive-brown, (Buczacki)

Gills:
olivaceous when young, (Knudsen), olive-yellow (Courtecuisse), adnate-emarginate, fairly crowded; olive-green then olive-brown; edge +/- toothed, (Buczacki)

Stem:
2.5-5.5cm x 0.3-1cm, olivaceous green with gray-brown veil remnants, (Knudsen), up to 5cm long and 0.6cm wide, olive-ocher to brownish, with brownish yellow fibrillose veil, (Courtecuisse), 3-6cm long, +/- equal or swollen toward base; "dry, fibrous lined", (Buczacki)

Veil:
gray-brown (Knudsen), brownish yellow fibrillose (Courtecuisse), partial veil gray-brown and sometimes forming ring zones, (Buczacki)

Odor:
radish (Courtecuisse), strong, radish-like, (Buczacki)

Taste:
faint, radish-like, (Buczacki)

Microscopic spores:
spores 6.5-8(9) x (3.5)4-5(5.5) microns, usually amygdaloid [almond-shaped], (Knudsen), spores 6.5-8 x 4-5 microns, elliptic, warty, (Buczacki)

Spore deposit:
red-brown (Buczacki)

Notes:
DNA sequencing indicates its presence in BC (Harrower(1)). It is also found in Europe (Knudsen(1)).

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