Hypholoma: purple-brown spores; typically growing from wood or woody debris. Species in this genus usually have a fibrllose veil. Stature type: Naucorioid, Cortinarioid, or Collbybioid. Most often the habit is clustered if on wood and solitary if on woody debris. Some species grow in Sphagnum (peat) bogs. Hypholoma fasiculare, H. capnoides.

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