A tall grey coloured fungus growing solitary or in small groups in soil or among leaf litter in shaded woodland and sometimes at the edges of fields.
Infrequnet from Summer to Autumn.
In shaded woodland or at field margins.
Initially ovoid or cylindrical, convex and then almost flat, greyish, covered with whitish or whitish-grey fibrils that flake off, sulcate-striate almort to the centre or the cap, margin splitting and finally reflexed.
Cap flesh fragile, thin, barely auto-digesting. Stem flesh fragile and hollow.
Adnexed or free, crowded, white, rapidly turning black.
White, initially minutely downy becoming smooth with age, base swollen, ring absent, fragile and hollow.
Edible but not worthwhile.
