A fungus with fan-shaped rosettes or lobes that can form extensive patches, found growing in debris and leaf-litter in broadleaf and coniferous woodland and in short turf on sandy soil close to conifers
Frequent from late Summer till Autumn.
Coniferous and broadleaf woodland on soil in leaf litter debris and on heathland on sandy soil, adjacent to conifers.
Fan shaped lobes or rosettes that are reddish-brown or chocolate-brown, concentrically zoned, paler at the margin, downy, sessile or a very rudimentary concolorous stout stem.
Tough, fibrous, brown in colour. Odour faint and earthy. Taste not distinctive.
Sessile or with a rudimentary, stout brown stem.
Inedible.
