Hebeloma     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)

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

Terrestrial Brown Spored     Family Growing on the ground

Links from Look-alikes Cortinarius     Genus With a cobwebby partial veil called a cortina Stem often much wider at the base Spore print usually rusty brown or cinnamon brown

Hebeloma     Genus     (Fries) Kummer

Diagnosis

• Cap up to 4" across, but usually more like 1"; glabrous; some extremely nondescript shade of greyish brown
  
• Stem fleshy
  
• Gill edges often appear white, minutely fringed
  
• Always mycorrhizal; almost always in forests

Microscropic Characters

• Abundant cheilocystidia

Comments

Narrow down your identification:

• No partial veil

• A fibrillose partial veil or cortina is present in young specimens.
  
• Remnants of the veil can usually be found on the cap margin or stalk of mature mushrooms

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