Hygrophoropsis     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)

Spore print "light-colored": white or buff, sometimes tinged with pink or tan. Greenish and (except for the Russulales) yellow spore prints also go here
Stalk fibrous, not fracturing like a piece of chalk

None of the special features distinguishing the other white-spored genera:
Gills not free, as in the Lepiotas and Amanitas
Basidia not extra-long, as in the Hygrophoraceae
Spores smooth, except for Lentinellus

Growing on the ground

Woodland Normal Trich     Tribe Found in woods Not rooting

Links from Look-alikes Clitocybe-like Fungi     Subtribe Gills attached to decurrent Coloration usually white to greyish brown, sometimes purple or with purple tones Never with a ring of any kind

Hygrophoropsis     Genus     (J. Schroeter) R. Maire

Diagnosis

• Spores white to creamy
  
• Gills orange, deeply decurrent
  
• Cap some shade of orange or yellow

Narrow down your identification:

Cap up to 3" across; yellowish orange to orange to orange brown, occasionally all brown to dark brown, often depressed and darker in the center; usually minutely velutinate
Gills forking repeatedly, deeper or brighter orange
Singly to scattered, on ground (usually under conifers) or coniferous wood

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