A smallish dark-brown fungus with a shaggy cap and scaly stem found growing either solitary or in small troops on soil and rotting debris in mixed or coniferous woodland.
Infrequent from late Summer till Autumn.
Coniferous or mixed woodland growing on soil or rotting debris.
Initially convex then expanded-flattened, dark-brown with erect scales.
Cap flesh is pallid and unchanging, stem flesh is pallid, flushed brown and also unchanging.
Adnexed or emarginate, crowded, pallid then dity beige with age.
More or less equal, brown, paler at the apex, floccose-scaly, ring absent.
Inedible.
