A medium sized agaric with a yellowish-brown cap found amongst grass beside paths in woods and roadsides.
Frequent from Summer till Autumn.
At the side of woodland paths and roads.
Convex and broadly umbonate, ochreaceous-tan, woolly fibrous at first then smooth, cap becomesdarker brown with age, margin is ragged with velar remnants.
Cap flesh ochaceous-brown, soft and thick at the centre. Stem flesh ochraceous-brown, fibrous, hollow. No distinctive odour, slightly bitter taste.
Adnate or adnexed, close, dark clay initially, purplish-brown to black when mature with paler edges, weeping when damp.
Spores black, warty, lemon-shaped.
More or less equal, ring zone-like, whitish above, fibrous scaly below ring zone.
Edible but poor.