Coarsely Fibrillose Inocybe     Section

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)

Gills not free
Spore print tan, orange, deep ochre, yellowish olive, olive brown, rusty or cinnamon brown or deep brown
Ring usually either absent or not membranous

Growing on the ground

Cap with prominent radial fibers, often splitting radially
All parts of the mushroom often scaly, scurfy, or tufted with minute hairs (barely visible on the stem in this image)
Cap usually less than 2" across

Diagnosis

• Cap with conspicuous pointed bundles or tufts of fibers; often with a torn appearance
  
• Typically straw-colored or tan

Comments

Narrow down your identification:

Cap up to 2" across; yellowish, darker at the disk; densely and minutely scurfy
Odor absent or faint

Cap up to 3" across; straw-colored; conical at first, becoming umbonate
Odor spermatic

Cap up to 1 5/8" across; dark brown; sometimes slightly umbonate
Odor absent or very slight
Under aspen or conifers

Cap up to 2 3/4" across; straw-colored; conical at first, becoming umbonate
Odor strong, fragrant or spicy at first, becoming unpleasant in age; sometimes compared to overripe pears

Cap up to 3" across; straw-colored; conical at first, becoming umbonate
Odor of green corn or corn husks, strong

Cap up to 2" across; straw-colored; conical at first, becoming umbonate
Odor "strong", according to R. Phillips (1991) ; or "not distinctive", according to A. E. Bessette, D. W. Fischer & A. R. Bessette (1997)

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