Ripartitella Singer (1947:85) .

Type:— Ripartitella squamosidisca (Murrill) Singer (1947:85) . Current name (see Ovrebo 1988): R. brasiliensis (Spegazzini) Singer (1951:452) .

Based on (Singer 1986): Basidiomata tricholomatoid, growing on rotten wood, solitary or gregarious, universal veil present. Pileus convex or plane, surface coarsely granulose or finely squamulose. Lamellae variably attached, white to pale cream. Stipe central or slightly eccentric, glabrous at top, with evanescent floccose-scaly ring zone, below granulose-squamulose with veil remnants, often with hyphal cords. Smell indistinct. Taste indistinct. Spore deposit white to whitish. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid to oblong, finely echinulate, without germ pore, hyaline, inamyloid. Hymenial cystidia mostly present, narrowly lageniform, with a spear-like apex covered with crystals. Pileipellis a trichodermium. Clamps present. Saprotrophic, on rotten wood, mostly in forests.