Phaeocollybia attenuata
Lilloa 22: 567. 1951.
Common Name: none
For description see Norvell & Exeter & 'California Mushrooms'.
Solitary to scattered to gregarious, in soil in mixed hardwood-conifer forests (Douglas fir, redwood, oak, tanbark oak, madrone); common from fall through mid-winter in coastal forests from the San Francisco Bay Area northward.
Unknown.
Phaeocollybia attenuata can be distinguished by its small size, conical, non-viscid, ochraceous to orangish brown cap, pinkish buff to pale lilac young gills, and a narrow cartilaginous stipe with ochraceous apex and reddish brown to black base. It is similar to Phaeocollybia californica, but it has a viscid cap when moist, white young gills, a thicker stipe and fruitbodies that grow in fasciculate clusters
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