Summary:
Features include 1) a hygrophanous, amber brown, viscid cap with a slightly striate margin when moist, 2) adnate, broad, ochraceous tawny gills, 3) a stem that is pale glistening honey brown becoming darker red-brown from the base and may have a few fibrils at first near the base, 4) non-distinctive odor and taste, 5) growth on coniferous logs, and 6) microscopic characters. Galerina sideroides is rare.

Cap:
1-2.5(3)cm across, obtuse to conic, then nearly flat or slightly umbonate; hygrophanous, "argus brown" to "amber-brown", fading with drying in streaks from disc outward to near cinnamon-buff or clay color; viscid, bald, margin faintly striate when moist, (Smith), 1-2.5(3)cm across, bluntly conic then +/- flat; hygrophanous, amber-brown fading to cinnamon-brown to clay-brown; greasy, margin lightly striate, (Moser)

Flesh:
thin, soft, (Smith)

Gills:
"broadly adnate, seceding, subdistant to close, broad"; ''ochraceous-tawny when mature, paler when young''; edges even, (Smith), ochre-brown (Moser)

Stem:
2-4cm x 0.2-0.25cm, equal, fragile, pale honey color in upper part, soon dark bay brown (red-brown) from base upward; bald and shining or with a few faint fibrils at first near base, (Smith), 2-4cm long, pale honey-brown, soon darker red-brown, (Moser)

Veil:
absent (Smith)

Odor:
not distinctive (Smith)

Taste:
not distinctive (Smith)

Microscopic spores:
spores 7-8.5(9) x 4-4.5 microns, elliptic to obscurely oval, smooth, pale dull cinnamon in KOH; basidia 4-spored, 20-40 x 7-8 microns, colorless in KOH; pleurocystidia none, cheilocystidia "abundant, ventricose-subcapitate with a thickening of the wall most always in the capitellum, some nearly filamentose-capitate and then often irregular in outline", colorless in KOH; clamp connections present, (Smith), spores 7-8.5(9) x 4-4.5 microns (Moser)

Spore deposit:
ochraceous-brown (Buczacki)

Notes:
Galerina sideroides has been found at least in WA and MI. It has been reported from BC in Kroeger(3), It occurs apparently also in Sweden (Smith(2)).

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