It has the recommended English name of tan pinkgill[1] and produces agaricoid basidiocarps (fruit bodies) that are fleshy and cream when young, becoming brownish when mature.

The species was originally named Hypophyllum geminum in 1793 by French mycologist Jean-Jacques Paulet and transferred to the genus Rhodocybe in 1987.

[3] In 2009, as a result of molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, CoDavid et al. included Rhodocybe gemina in their expanded concept of Clitopilus.

[4] Subsequent research showed, however, that Rhodocybe is a monophyletic (natural) genus and that R. gemina belongs within it.

[3] A saprotrophic species, it generally grows in woodlands, both broadleaved and occasionally coniferous, but also in grassland and scrub.