A whitish to buff, satiny-capped clitocyboid mushroom that usually grows in tight clusters in hardwood leaf litter or conifer duff. Its crowded, shallow gills turn pinkish with age and can often be peeled away from the cap as a layer, and it gives a pinkish spore print of very small, finely warted spores. Its defining features are not fully agreed upon in the literature.
Edibility unknown; not recommended. White to buff clustered Clitocybe include muscarine-containing species, and pink-spored Entoloma species can be toxic.
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Saprobic; usually clustered, sometimes scattered, in hardwood leaf litter or conifer duff; summer and fall, or over winter in warm climates.
Distribution
Described from the New York Botanical Garden; apparently widely distributed in North America; also reported from Scandinavia.
Characteristics
Cap: 2-9 cm, convex with an inrolled margin, becoming flat, thin-fleshed, whitish to buff with a satiny sheen, sometimes watery-spotted, margin lined with age. Gills: broadly attached to slightly decurrent, crowded, very shallow, often separable as a layer, buff becoming pinkish. Stem: 2-8 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm thick, whitish to buff, bruising grayish or watery brownish, with copious white basal mycelium. Flesh: whitish, fairly brittle. Odor: sweet, fragrant or not distinctive. Taste: mild or slightly bitter. Spore print: pinkish, sometimes nearly white. Microscopic: spores ellipsoid, finely warted, inamyloid, 3-5 x 2.5-3.5 µm, often adhering in groups; clamp connections present.
