Leprocybe     Subgenus

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

With a cobwebby partial veil called a cortina
Stem often much wider at the base
Spore print usually rusty brown or cinnamon brown

Diagnosis

• Not sticky anywhere
  
• Cap not hygrophanous
  
• Fruiting body husky, with duller olive, yellow, yellowish or orangish brown coloration

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Lookalikes: Gymnopilus     Genus Entire fruiting body pumpkin-colored or golden yellow.

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