Description
The cap is convex or umbilicate when young, soon funnel-shaped. Pale when moist, with a weakly translucent and striped margin, almost white when dry, it grows up to 5 cm in diameter. The gills are dirty white, crowded and a little decurrent. The spores are also white. The stem is pale brown, striped and soon hollow, with a white, felty base. The flesh is dirty brown.Similar species
Several species growing in autumn look very similar and are difficult to distinguish without a microscope.References
*E. Garnweidner. ''Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe''. Collins. 1994.External links
* * brumalis Fungi described in 1872 Fungi of Europe Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries {{Tricholomataceae-stub