Clitopilus     Genus

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Spores pink or reddish

Terrestrial (occasionally on rotting wood on the ground)
Gills attached (notched, adnate, or subdecurrent), sometimes almost free in small mushrooms

Clitopilus     Genus     (Fries: Rabenhorst) Kummer

Diagnosis

• Cap up to 4" across; white to brownish grey
  
• Gills usually decurrent

Microscropic Characters

• Spores long and banana-shaped; ridged the long way (like those seeds in rye bread)

Narrow down your identification:

Cap up to 3" across; margin irregular; entire fruiting body white
Odor of flour

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