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A star-shaped base surmounted by a cream "bulb" found growing solitary or in small trooping groups on soil amongst leaf litter.
The fruitbody is creamy-ochraceous, scaly, bulb-shaped, sessile. The brittle outer peridium splits at maturity into 5-8npointed star-shaped rays that reflex back, revealing the cream coloured inner flesh.
The spore mass (gleba) is initially pallid and firm becoming brown and powdery.
Infrequent from late Summer till early Autumn.
In broadleaf woodland in soil anongst leaf-litter.
Inedible.