Summary:
Features include 1) a dry cap that is fuscous brown to ochraceous brown with a dark umber umbo, the cap surface appressed-fibrillose away from the umbo, 2) close broad gills that become ochraceous cinnamon to ferruginous with white fringed edges, 3) a somewhat bulbous, dry, fibrillose stem that is umber-fuscous-brown with a paler top, 4) an earthy odor, and 5) angular spores with a few scattered tubercles. The description is derived from Kauffman(1). It may be a synonym of Inocybe curvipes P. Karst.

Cap:
1.5-5cm across, bell-shaped, very umbonate with an obtuse, dark umber umbo; fuscous brown to ochraceous brown; dry, umbo stays bald, but elsewhere cap is appressed-fibrillose with brown fibrils, becoming cracked

Flesh:
thickish on disc; white

Gills:
adnate, finally sinuate-uncinate, close, broad; becoming ochraceous cinnamon to somewhat ferruginous; edges white and flocculose [fringed]

Stem:
3-6cm x 0.2-0.4cm, equal, stuffed, somewhat bulbed at base; becoming umber-fuscous-brown with paler top; dry, silky fibrillose, white-mycelioid at base

Veil:
no ring

Odor:
earthy

Microscopic spores:
spores 7-9 x 5-6 microns, irregularly oblong-rectangular to somewhat wedge-shaped, angular and with a few scattered tubercles; pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia few or scattered, 55-65 x 12-18 microns, broadly ventricose (wider in middle), top somewhat pointed and encrusted, on slender pedicel

Spore deposit:
brown

Notes:
Inocybe radiata was reported by Gamiet(1) for BC. There is a collection by L. Norvell from BC at the University of British Columbia. There are collections at the University of Washington from WA, ID, MA, and MI. It was noted by Kauffman(4) for MA and NY to NC and MI.

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