Cosmopolitan genus with lignicultural species.
Sporophores tricholomatoid, sometimes clitocyboid. Cap fleshy, often pigmented yellow, reddish or greyish, squamous or radially fibrous. Stipe central, fleshy, solid to
fistulous, fibrous; ring absent. Flesh fleshy, inamyloid. Hymenophore with sinuate to adnate-decurrent lamellae, white or yellowish. Spore print pure white.
Spores globose to ellipsoid, hyaline, smooth, thick-walled, inamyloid. Cheilocystidia abundant, prominent; pleurocystidia absent. Trama regular to
subregular. Clamp connections present.