Summary:
Features include 1) tricholomatoid stature, 2) a drab gray to gray brown cap that is punctate-tomentulose, 3) white flesh that bruises grayish, 4) adnexed to sinuate, dark gray gills with fine toothed edges, 5) a dark brown to orange-gray to pale gray or cap-colored stem that is punctate at the top, 6) an indistinct to bean-like odor and taste, 7) growth in humus near conifers, 8) a pinkish spore deposit, and 9) angular spores. The description is derived from Largent(1). It is common in the western United States (Largent(1)).

Cap:
1.5-5cm across, convex to broadly convex to broadly bell-shaped, becoming flat to uplifted; margin incurved, becoming decurved [downcurved] when old, even, becoming eroded and rimose when old; punctae, squamules [fine scales] and fibrils on cap surface dark reddish gray-brown or drab to drab gray at first, becoming gray-brown when old and on drying, background light brown to brownish orange; punctate-tomentulose when young, often remaining so when old but at times remaining so only on disc and becoming appressed-squamulose toward margin and radially appressed-fibrillose at margin, often rimose [cracked], (Largent), up to 6cm across, uniform dark gray-brown; tomentose-fibrillose, (Courtecuisse)

Flesh:
up to 0.4cm thick at disc; whitish becoming grayish with bruising, (Largent), gray or colored as surface (Courtecuisse)

Gills:
adnexed to sinuate, seceding when old, "close to subdistant, moderately broad to broad, at times more or less ventricose" (0.3-0.8cm broad, 0.8-2.3cm long); dark gray to dark gray-brown, becoming more pinkish; edge somewhat serrate [toothed], paler than face, often discoloring brownish, (Largent), grayish brown to reddish brown (Courtecuisse)

Stem:
3.5-12cm x 0.3-0.9cm at top, equal or 0.3-1.3cm wide at base, circular in cross-section or flattened; dark brown then orangish gray to grayish orange to pale gray or colored as cap; strongly to slightly punctate at top and often elsewhere, often "fibrils agglutinated into scattered to abundant squamule-like clumps"; "basal mycelium moderate, white at first", (Largent), up to 8cm long and 0.8cm wide, dark gray on a pale ground; fibrillose, (Courtecuisse)

Odor:
indistinct to bean-like (Largent)

Taste:
indistinct to bean-like (Largent)

Microscopic spores:
spores 7.4-11.5 x 4.7-9.3 microns, 5-6 sided, angular, smooth; basidia 2-4-spored, 35-50.6 x 8.1-11.0 microns, clavate; pleurocystidia rare to scattered, similar to cheilocystidia, cheilocystidia abundant, at times forming sterile layer, 34.0-92.1 x 5.4-19.1 microns, "ventricose to lageniform with at least some capitate and then tibiiform to lecythiform"; trama of gills 64-260 x 10-26 microns; cap cuticle "a layer of entangled hyphae, elements often erect and then nearly a trichodermium", hyphae of subpellis not differentiated from hyphae of cap trama, pileocystidia 35.0-150 x 11.6-32.4 microns, "clavate to cylindro-clavate, most often obclavate and with subacute apices, often large and broad", cap trama hyphae 130-220 x 10-26 microns, interspersed with slender hyphae 2-6 microns wide; stem cuticle at apex often entirely composed of abundant, tightly entangled clusters of caulocystidia that are 27.6-55.6 x 5.0-18.1 microns, clavate to cylindro-clavate, stem trama hyphae 110-280 x 16-28 microns; vascular hyphae absent; clamps large and broad on hyphae of cap cuticle, scattered and slender at base of basidia, cheilocystidia, and caulocystidia; pigmentation intracellular in hyphae of cap cuticle, (Largent)

Spore deposit:
pink (Buczacki)

Notes:
Collections were examined from WA, OR, ID, CA, and CO, (Largent). It was reported from BC in Kroeger(3).

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Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Entoloma jubatum (Fr.) P. Karst.
Entoloma scabrinellum (Peck) Sacc.
Entoloma subjubatum Murrill
Leptonia jubata (Fr.) Largent