Summary:
Features include 1) a dark gray-brown cap that has a greenish to olivaceous cast when young, the surface tomentose on the disc and appressed-fibrillose at the margin, 2) dark gray-brown to fuscous gills, 3) a pale silvery gray stem that becomes gray-brown when bruised, 4) angular spores, and 5) abundant cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia.

Cap:
0.7-4cm across, conic to bell-shaped, becoming convex or parabolic, often broadly umbonate with truncate top, margin incurved to decurved [downcurved] becoming flat and eroded, smooth, even to at times wavy; fibrils and squamules [fine scales] dark olive brown to dark gray-brown, "at first with a metallic green tint" due to olivaceous background; "dry, dull, not hygrophanous", "densely tomentose on the disc, becoming densely appressed fibrillose at the margin", margin often translucent-striate at the extreme edge, (Largent), 1.5-3.5cm across, conic-campanulate; "with (metallic) greenish tone, silky-fibrous, olivaceous-grey-brownish, glistening olive-ochre"; fibrous to finely scaly, unstriate, (Moser)

Flesh:
up to 0.3cm thick at disc; olivaceous to light olivaceous brown, in stem colored the same as in cap, (Largent)

Gills:
"adnexed to sinuate or emarginate, close to subdistant, narrow", 0.2-0.6cm broad, 0.9-2cm long; dark gray-brown to almost fuscous with margin paler, becoming pinkish gray-brown; irregularly serrulate [finely toothed], (Largent), deeply concave adnate; grey-brown, (Moser)

Stem:
3-7cm x (0.15)0.2-0.5cm at top, equal, stuffed becoming hollow; pale gray becoming dark gray-brown when bruised or when old, "often with a greenish cast at first"; shiny, silvery, dry, appressed-fibrillose, (Largent), 3.5-8cm x 0.3-0.5cm; gray-brownish; silvery-silky, (Moser)

Veil:
no ring

Odor:
"unpleasant, grassy to spermatic, at times slight", (Largent)

Taste:
unpleasant (Largent)

Microscopic spores:
spores 8.2-11.5 x 5.5-8.3 microns, 5-6 sided, distinctly angular, smooth, "often with a suprahilar depression"; basidia 4-spored, 36-52 x 10-15 microns, easily separated, with granules; pseudocystidia abundant in hymenium, pleurocystidia "similar in size, shape, and abundance to cheilocystidia", cheilocystidia abundant, in tufts, 45-90 x 9-20 x 3-6 (at top) microns, broadly clavate and acuminate, becoming rostrate-ventricose [beaked and wider in middle] and capitate [with a head at top]; gill trama hyphae subparallel, <= 15 microns wide; cap cuticle "a layer of entangled hyphae on disc, a cutis elsewhere", pileocystidia 70-190 x 9-20 microns, "cylindric, cylindro-clavate, or clavate"; stipitipellis "at apex composed of abundant caulocystidia" which are similar to hymenial cystidia and 52-95 x 12-20 microns; clamps absent in all tissues; pigmentation distinctly and coarsely incrusted on hyphae of cap cuticle and cap trama, in form of spirals, intracellular pigment not recorded, (Largent), spores 10-12 x 6-8 microns, (Moser)

Spore deposit:
pink (Buczacki)

Notes:
Pouzarella versatilis has been found at least in WA (Largent(1)). There are collections from BC identified by O. Ceska at the University of British Columbia.

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Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Entoloma versatile (V. Brig.) M.M. Moser