Sericeocybe     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

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

Links from Look-alikes Blewit     Section Spore print pinkish buff Fruiting body often with some purple coloration, although this tends to be less, the larger the fruiting body is Cap smooth, margin wavy, usually inrolled even after the cap has fully expanded Flesh hygrophanous (usually all the way through the cap), often with a slightly soapy look and feel to it (wet your finger first to get the full effect)

Diagnosis

• Not sticky anywhere
  
• Cap not hygrophanous
  
• Fruiting body with purple to lilac coloration

Narrow down your identification:

• Entire fruiting body silvery lilac
  
• Flesh white to pale lilac, not mottled
  
• Gills usually purple, until colored rusty brown by developing spores

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