A medium to large fungus with a whitish, scaly cap found growing solitary or in clusters on dead and sometimes on treated conifer wood.
A rare species from late Summer till early Autumn.
Coniferous woodland.
Initially convex, later flattening or depressed, whitish cream with concentrically arranged brown scales, margin regular, ramaining incurved.
Cap flesh is thin, white, initially soft, tough with age. There is a faint smell of aniseed, taste not distinctive.
Adnate, decurrent down to the ring-like zone, finely toothed, white, broad, close, becoming ochraceous with age.
Slender, more or less equal, concolorous with the cap, with white velar remnants towards the apex when young, increasingly brown towards the base. The stem has fine brown scales arranged in belt-like rings
