Small to medium sized, fleshy mushrooms saprobic on soil. The cap is typically depressed or umbilicate when mature, the gills decurrent. Spore print is white, creamy or pinkish; the spores are usually smooth, and when pink not angular like Entoloma.

Taxonomically poorly understood, six or more species have been reported from New Zealand, only those listed below have descriptions or images available from NZFungi.

Pileus generally fleshy at the disc, and becoming thin towards the margin, flexible or tough, for the most part plano-depressed or infundibuliform, margin involute ; gills decurrent, edges thin, entire ; stem central, externally fibrous, somewhat elastic, stuffed, often becoming hollow; veil obsolete ; spores hyaline, elliptical, or subglobose.

Differs from Omphalia, its closest ally, in the stem being fibrous externally, and not polished or cartilaginous. The gills are also usually much less decurrent, being, in fact, sometimes only slightly so. Pleurotus differs in the lateral or excentric stem, and Hygrophorus in the waxy gills. Finally, Cantharellus is separated by the narrow, distant, thick-edged gills. Growing on the ground.