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Trailside with Heteromeles arbutifolia, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Malosma laurina. Closely resembled Clitocybe nuda, but white with faint yellow staining on cap, very faint pink tone on stipe top with same texture as C. nuda. Odorless.

With Pinus coulteri. Common.

Odor of toasted coconut, faintly spermatic.

Pileus fibrillose, golden brown, darker toward center; margins entire to rimose. Young gills faintly greenish yellow.

Stipe solid, the color of aged bone (incarnate), not bruising; caulocystidia along the full length, slightly more dense at apex; base bulbous with flat bottom, emarginate with cortina attached to pileus.

Pleurocystidia variably slender to broadly fusoid metuloids or with with irregular club-like protrusions, one or two (“rabbit ears”). With clamp connections.
Spores nodulose.