Clitocybe catinus

A white Clitocybe with a slightly infundibuliform cap, associated with high-mountain conifers.

Pileipellis composed of filamentous, hyaline, thin-walled hyphae, slightly interwoven, 3-8 µm wide, septate with clamp connections at the septa.

Cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 25-35 µm long and 6-8 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal to amygdaliform, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a prominent curved apiculus at one end, abundant vacuolar internal content, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.