Gymnopus sect. Gymnopus, emend.

Emended circumscription.

Pileus membranous or fleshy; stipe smooth or slightly to deeply sulcate-striate, with a well-developed or reduced pseudorrhiza; spore print white to pale ochraceous; cheilocystidia versiform, clavate, fusoid, tending inflated, sometimes with more or less finger-like apical projection(s), or diverticulate elements; pileipellis a cutis, or this transitioning to a trichoderm, with broad terminal elements, mostly inflated, mixed with irregularly branched elements and some resembling Dryophila -type structures; no dextrinoid or cyanophilous structures; rooting in the substrate, frequently on roots or stumps.

Type species. Gymnopus fusipes (Bull.) Gray

Other currently recognised species. G. omphalinoides J.P. Li, T.H. Li & Y. Li, G. schizophyllus J.P. Li, T.H. Li & Y. Li