A medium-sized fungus that is yellow-tawny coloured with a funnel-shaped cap foung growing solitary or in troops on soil in coniferous woodland.
Frequent from Summer till Autumn.
On soil in needle litter growing in coniferous woodland, less commonly with broadleaf trees.
Initially flattened and ochraceous-buff, later convex then tawny coloured, smooth and infundibuliform
Cap and stem flesh are thin and pallid cream, stem flesh hollow.
Deeply-decurrent, broad, crowded, pallid creamy-yellow.
Concolorous with the cap, finely woolly at the base, smooth at the apex, equal, ring absent.
Habitat: On loam soil or on leaf and needle litter in deciduous and conifer woodland. Notes: Very common and widespread. Macroscopically a variable species, the variations influenced by temperature and humidity fide Kuyper & Noordeloos (FAN3: 75). (REF: the BC)
