Summary:
Features include 1) robust stature, 2) white flesh that is lilac in the top of the stem, 3) adnexed, well-spaced gills that are white-gray-lilac at first becoming yellow-brown or brown, 4) a long stem that is lilac at the top or throughout and otherwise whitish gray, with dark brown fibrils over the entire length, 5) a spermatic odor, 6) almond-shaped to somewhat lemon-shaped spores 8.5-11 x 5.5-6.5 microns, 7) long thin cystidia and 8) brown encrusted paracystidia. The description is derived from Cripps(1).

Gills:
adnexed, more rarely sinuate or subdecurrent [somewhat decurrent], well-spaced, somewhat broad when mature; white-gray-lilac combination when young, becoming yellow-brown or brown; edges indistinctly fimbriate [fringed] and colored as faces

Stem:
3.5-7.5cm x 0.3-0.7cm, long compared with cap width and stout, equal, straight or flexuous [wavy]; usually lilac at top or entire length, otherwise whitish-gray, with dark brown fibrils over entire length, especially toward base, almost reticulate in some

Veil:
cortina when young, ephemeral [fleeting], buff

Odor:
spermatic

Microscopic spores:
spores (8.5)9-11 x 5.5-6.5 microns, smooth, "subamygdaliform, with small apiculus, obtuse apex, less frequently with conical apex, somewhat lemon-shaped, thick-walled"; basidia 4-spored, 22-36 x 9-11 microns, clavate; pleurocystidia numerous, 60-100 x 14-23 microns, "long and narrowly fusiform, pedicel long, crystals at apex", walls 1-3 microns thick, pale or bright yellow, cheilocystidia similar to pleurocystidia but shorter (to 60 microns), paracystidia 13-36 x 9-18 microns, "pyriform or clavate, walls brown encrusted"; caulocystidia absent, or extremely rare, similar to pleurocystidia; cap cuticle hyphae parallel, 7-20(30) microns wide, encrusted, inflated; clamp connections present all tissues

Spore deposit:
brown

Notes:
Inocybe cincinnata var. major has been found at least in MT and CA (Cripps(1)), There are collections from BC at the University of British Columbia and collections from WA at the University of Washington. Kauffman(4) includes Inocybe cincinnata (Fr.) P. Karst. from Washington, Oregon, New York, Ohio, and Europe. Kuyper examined collections of Inocybe phaeocomis var. major from Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom (England).

EDIBILITY

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Inocybe phaeocomis (Pers.) T. Kuyper var. major S. Peterson