Mushrooms with white spore powder are referred to the genus; grow in dense groups, often fused with the bases of the legs. The fruiting bodies are fleshy, white, grayish, brownish, in some species darken upon drying. Hats are irregular, hump-shaped, flat-blunt or funnel-shaped. The plates are grown. Legs are smooth, even or thickening to the base, sometimes eccentric. The pulp is elastic. The Lyophyllum genus is distinguished from the close genera of the Ryadovka ( Tricholoma ) and Govorushka ( Clitocybe ) mainly by microscopic features. Ecologically, these are soil saprophytes , less often mycorrhizal fungi growing on humus soil , forest litter, and decaying wood .
The genus includes about 25 species. In Russia, there are approximately 7 species, among which the lyophillum is fused and the lyophillum is most known.
- Lyophyllum connatum - Lyophillum fused , or Ryadovka fused
- Lyophyllum decastes - crowded lyophillum , or crowded rowing
- Lyophyllum eustygium
- Lyophyllum favrei
- Lyophyllum fumosum - Smoky Gray Lyophillum
- Lyophyllum gangraenosum
- Lyophyllum hypoxanthum
- Lyophyllum infumatum - Lyophillum olive gray
- Lyophyllum konradianum
- Lyophyllum leucophaeatum
- Lyophyllum loricatum - Carapace lyophillum
- Lyophyllum palustre - Lyophillum marsh
- Lyophyllum semitale
- Lyophyllum shimeji
- Lyophyllum transforme
- Lyophyllum trigonosporum
