Found growing alone, scattered, or in large arcs and fairy rings in pastures, open woods and woodland clearings with trees present; sometimes in disturbed ground from summer till late autumn.
Initially convex, then flat, eventually developing a central depression and becoming somewhat funnel-shaped; dry; smooth; the margin inrolled at first, later wavy and sometimes obscurely lined; fragile in age; whitish at first, but buff to tan by maturity.
White, taste and odour is faint and pleasant.
Decurrent, crowded and forked, creamy becoming nearly tan in age.
Spores are smooth, amyloid, 6.5–7 x 3–4um.
More or less equal; dry; whitish, with tiny fibres that darken in age; stem base has numerous white mycelium.
Uncommon.
Found growing amongst grass in pastures, hedgerows or on roadsides, often in rings.
