This fungus has a yellowish-brown to yellowish cap, a dense coating of granules on the cap and stem and may be found either growing alone, scattered, or gregariously, usually in moss under conifers from late Summer until late Autumn.
Usually found growing with moss in coniferous woodland.
Dry, convex, conical, or bell-shaped at first, becoming broadly convex, broadly bell-shaped, or almost flat, often wrinkled in radial patterns, covered with mealy granules, pale reddish brown to yellowish brown or yellowish.
The flesh is whitish and thin. Odour: pungent and unpleasant. Taste mild.
iInitially whitish, yellowing with age, close.
More or less equal, or tapering towards the apex, dry, pale and fairly smooth near the apex, but sheathed with granular material and coloured like the cap below; the sheath terminating in a flimsy ring that often fragments or disappears.
