Clitopilus: flesh-brown spore print; microscopically the spores have longitudinal ridges in face view. In C. prunulus, the most common species in northern California, the pileus is gray, the gills decurrent, and the odor farinaceous; its stature type is Clitocyboid. However, C. hobsonii is also abundant in our oak forests; it is pure white and with no stipe and its stature type is Pleurotoid.

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