| 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. |

| Illustration and © Jacob Heilmann-Clausen Denmark, 2005 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.516 |
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