Clitocybe intermedia Kauffman Cap 1.5-4cm across, broadly convex and shallowly depressed with an inrolled margin, becoming funnel-shaped with a wavy margin; yellowy brown to fawn to buff; hygrophanous, moist, smooth. Gills decurrent, close, narrow to moderately broad; pale buff or pale pinky-gray. Stem 10-65 x 2-6mm, stuffed then hollow, sometimes curved; same color as cap, smooth to finely hairy, sometimes with white mycelium around the base. Flesh thin, brittle; buff or fawn. Odor mealy. Taste mealy. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, amyloid, 6.5-8.5 x 4-5µ. Deposit white. Habitat scattered or in clusters on soil and twigs along roads and paths and in open woods. Found in northeastern North America and the Pacific Northwest. Season September-October. Not edible. |