A small dark-brown fungus that has a slightly umbonate cap found growing solitary or in groups in coniferous and broadleaf woodland.
Infrequent from Summer till Autumn.
Coniferous and broadleaf woodland.
Initially convex, then flattened with a broad umbo, umber-brown or purplish-brown in colour with radial fibres, later, the surface cracks radially.
Cap flesh is whitish, stem flesh also whitish but darker nearer the base, flesh unchanging. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Adnate with a decurrent tooth, close or crowded, initially clay-brown, darker brown with age.
More or less equal, ring absent, pallid concolorous with the cap, white bulbous base, almost marginate, fibrous. barely pruinose at the apex.
Inedible.
