Summary:
Subgenus Dermocybe. Features include 1) a nearly hemispheric to obtuse cap that is reddish brown to dull red, usually with a thin coating of yellow-brown fibrils, 2) close to slightly distant, violet brown gills with red edges, 3) a longitudinally fibrillose stem that widens slightly downward and is a mixture of ochraceous and reddish tones, 4) a radish-like odor, 5) a bitterish then radish-like taste, 6) growth under conifers in late summer and fall, and 7) microscopic characters. The description is derived from Niskanen(5).

Cap:
1.7-2.7cm across, "nearly hemispheric to obtuse with a rounded disc, subumbonate to slightly depressed, margin slightly enrolled at edge", usually appearing incurved to downcurved; "usually with a thin coating of ochraceous to ochraceous brown (light colored fibrils from veil, brown mixed with Warm Buff (pale yellow with slight orange tint)), basic color Brick Red (reddish brown) to Liver Brown (dull red), around disc with some Carob Brown (dark brown with slight reddish tint) or blackish red streaks or spots"; "moist to dry, opaque", "disc often coated with persistent veil"

Flesh:
in cap firm to subfragile, watery deep red over gills, "otherwise pale brownish with tints of surface colors beneath cuticle, faded dingy whitish above stipe apex"; in stem "brownish white, pale, slightly tinted with color of cortex, cortex above dull to

Gills:
"emarginated", "close to slightly distant"; "Maroon (violet brown) with edges near Garnet Brown (brownish red) to rich red", becoming rusty brown from spores

Stem:
3.5-5.2cm x 0.4-0.6cm at top, 0.5-0.8cm wide at base which is "somewhat clavate to enlarged", "surface longitudinally fibrillose, fibrils yellowish to brownish or reddish, apex light ochraceous buff with a reddish cast in places, lower stipe and base more ochraceous (yellow ochre or more yellowish) or stipe rich wine red in place [sic] but with ochraceous to ochraceous buff tones"; basal mycelium "more or less ochraceous buff"

Veil:
cortina pale dull yellowish; universal veil ochraceous, "disc often coated with persistent veil"

Odor:
radish-like

Taste:
bitterish then radish-like

Microscopic spores:
spores 7.4-8.5 x 4.1-5.2 microns, elliptic, moderately verrucose; basidia "4-spored, pinkish in KOH"; cap cuticle: veil hyphae over surface 2.5-9 microns wide, cylindric, "slightly encrusted, yellowish, pinkish or pale vinaceous", cap cuticle hyphae 6-15 microns wide, cylindric to tubular or broadly cylindric, "with purple pigment fresh in KOH, also dried material when first mounted in KOH, later fading to pinkish or paler, more or less encrusted"

Notes:
Collections were cited in the original description from BC and WA.

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