Generic short diagnoses:
Relatively small, brown-spored, ectotrophic (Betulaceae mainly) agarics, typically in troops and mostly with evident more or less cortinate veil; spores as in Cortinarius, cheilocystidia highly differentiated, thin-walled.
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