Local name: Kashi Shamong

Edibility: Edible

Habitat: Terrestrial and scattered to gregarious.

Description:Cap: 2-10 cm, convex, brown surface, decurved to plane margin with viscid surface. Hymenophore: Sub-decurrent, white, and close gills. The margin of the gills is serrete and lamellulae present. Stem: 2-7 cm tall and up to 3cm wide, equal to sub-clavate, central, fused base in some cases. It is white and semi-stuffed. Flesh: White, not changing when exposed to air. Spore Print: White.

Comments: L. shimeji should always be cooked, it is not good to serve raw due to a somewhat bitter taste, but the bitterness disappears completely upon cooking. The cooked mushroom has a pleasant, firm, slightly crunchy texture and a slightly nutty flavour. This mushroom has the same problem as other Lyophyllum in being very perishable.