Galerina: rusty-brown spores; stature mycenoid, collybioid, or galerinoid.

Species of Galerina typically either grow on the ground or on wood and in either habitat typically grow in amongst mosses. In species of Galerina, the pileus is bald, moist to lubricous, thin-fleshed, shiny (typically not dull), translucent-striate (the gills can be seen through the thin pileus) to the disc, hygrophanous, and colored yellow-red to orange-brown. Species of Conocybe are similar in appearence to species of Galerina; however, Conocybe species have a pileus that at first has a hoary (with a silvery sheen, as if coated by frost) sheen and that becomes atomate (dull and covered by minute, dry, particles) when dry.

Galerina is easily separated from Conocybe using microscopic features.