Summary:
Limacella glioderma is distinguished from other Limacellas by a viscid reddish-brown cap, an evanescent partial veil, and a dry, fragile stem. Other features include pink-tinged flesh, close gills that are whitish or tinged cap color, a whitish or pallid stem above the ring, cap-colored scales, patches and/or fibrils below the ring, a strongly farinaceous odor and taste, a white spore deposit, and round, smooth, inamyloid spores. With access on June 10, 2019, both Tulloss(6) and MycoBank had Limacella glioderma as a separate species, but Species Fungorum had the current name as Limacella delicata (Fr.) Earle ex Konrad and Maubl. DNA sequencing from one red species in WA and another in OR is close to but not exactly the same as DNA sequencing from material identified as Limacella glioderma.

Gills:
adnexed or notched (or when old becoming free), close; whitish or tinged cap color, (Arora)

Stem:
4-12cm x 0.5-1(1.5)cm, "often rather slender and fragile", equal or slightly wider at either end; "whitish or pallid above the ring, with cap-colored scales, patches and/ or fibrils below", dry overall or occasionally with a few patches of slime from cap, (Arora), dry overall or viscid when gluten from cap has dropped on it, (Scates)

Veil:
partial veil whitish, fibrillose, "forming a slight superior ring or ragged zone" or disappearing, universal veil evanescent, usually not visible and not forming a volva, (Arora)

Odor:
strongly farinaceous (Scates), distinctly but pleasantly farinaceous (Arora), strongly of meal, cucumber, or watermelon, (Courtecuisse)

Taste:
strongly farinaceous (Scates), mild, farinaceous, (Breitenbach)

Microscopic spores:
spores 3-5 x 3-5 microns, round, smooth, inamyloid; gill tissue divergent, (Arora), spores 3.8-4.8 x 3.5-4.7 microns, round, smooth, colorless, some dextrinoid; basidia 4-spored, 20-27 x 6 microns, narrowly clavate, with basal clamp connection; pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia not seen; cap cuticle in the center of cap an ixotrichoderm composed of erect, cylindric, in part flexuous [wavy] hyphal ends 20-50 x 3-6 microns, colorless, subcutis brown-pigmented, all strongly gelatinized, septa with indistinct clamp connections, (Breitenbach)

Spore deposit:
white (Arora)

Notes:
Breitenbach(4) gave the distribution as North America, Europe, and Asia. There are collections labeled as Limacella glioderma from BC and AB at the University of British Columbia. The University of Washington has collections labeled as this species from WA, ID, WY, Finland and Germany.

EDIBILITY

unknown (Arora)