 "Inocybe" by the famous Swedish scholar Elias Magnus Fries in volume 1 of his work, "Systema mycologicum" (1821), and verified in the volume 2 of his book "Monographia Hymenomycetum Sueciae" in 1863.All other renaming attempts are accepted synonymous 

Typical mushrooms of the genus are any of various shades of brown, although some lilac or purplish species exist.Caps are small and conical, though flattening somewhat in age, generally with a pronounced raised central knob or umbo.