Generic short diagnoses:
Pleurotoid (as a rule completely stipeless), mostly thin-fleshed, dull brown-spored, saprobic agarics with nearly smooth to coarsely ornamented, variously shaped spores, without pores and thin-walled cheilocystidia.
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