This inedible fungus has a ring on the stem and a consistently brown cap. A few other species of Agrocybe can be dark brown when young, but soon fade to paler colours.
Frequent during Autumn.
Growing on soil among leaf litter in broadleaf woodland.
Initially convex becoming broadly convex to flat, often with a low central umbo; dark brown eventually a dull brown; slimy when fresh and young, but soon drying out; smooth; often with whitish partial veil remnants on the margin.
Thin and pale brownish. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Attached to the stem; slightly decurrent; pale brownish; eventually rusty brown; close or nearly distant.
More or less equal; smooth to finely hairy; whitish, brownish from the base up; pale ring that is thin and may collapse or disappear on maturing.
Inedible.
