white gill edge and pruinose-scaly stipe apex
	fibrillose and radially rimose pileus of Inocybe sororia

Inocybe: brown spores; typically with a white gill edge and a pruinose to squamulose stipe apex. Stature type: most often Naucorioid, but can be Tricholomatoid and rarely Collybioid.

Using only macroscopic characters, Inocybe can only be separated from Hebeloma with difficulty; Hebeloma also has brown spores, white gill edges, a pruinose to scaly stipe apex, and a Naucorioid to Tricholomatoid stature . Four characters are helpful, pileus surface, odor, and habitat.

	Inocybe	Hebeloma
pileus surface	fibrillose and often radially rimose, scaly, lacerate scaly, often bald	typically bald
pileus surface	bald, dry, or at most lubricous (oily)	typically viscid to gelatinous, rarely dry
odor	spermatic, fishy, fruit-like, sweet	typically potato-like, radish-like or unpleasant when cut
habitat	typically mycorrhizal with conifers	in northern California, associated with conifers and with hardwoods
number of fruiting bodies	numerous	few to solitary