Summary:
Hygrophorus odoratus has a strongly aromatic odor, somewhat as in Hygrophorus agathosmus (almonds). Other features include a viscid, gray cap, decurrent, distant, broad gills that are whitish becoming creamy, and a dry pallid stem. Some collections identified as H. agathosmus are actually H. odoratus when DNA is studied. The description is derived from Hesler(1).

Cap:
2-4cm across, obtuse to broadly convex, becoming flat or disc slightly depressed and margin arched; dark ashy gray over disc, paler gray to pallid along margin, when old with faint ochraceous tinge throughout; viscid, fibrillose-streaked to matted-fibrillose under viscidity

Flesh:
soft; pallid

Gills:
decurrent, distant, broad; whitish becoming creamy, unchanging when bruised

Stem:
4-8cm x 0.3-0.6cm at top, equal or narrowing downward; pallid at first, unchanging with bruising but drying with faint ochraceous tinge; dry, bald, faintly silky at top

Odor:
strongly aromatic, somewhat as in Hygrophorus agathosmus [almonds]

Microscopic spores:
spores 11-14 x 6.5-8 microns, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid; basidia 4-spored, 40-62 x 8-10 microns; pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia not seen; gill tissue divergent; clamp connections present in gill trama and cuticular hyphae

Spore deposit:
[presumably white]

Notes:
Collections were examined from OR (including the holotype) and ID (Hesler(1)). There is a collection from BC at the University of British Columbia by Paul Kroeger. DNA from a WA collection found at the North American Mycological Association meeting in 2014 shows a 100% sequence match with the holotype sequence (D. Miller, pers. comm.). A photograph is consistent but Morphological features need to be correlated.

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