Description
Cap convex, then expanded to plane, Ø 2-9 cm, grey- or sepia-brown to black, somewhat lighter under the scales, hairy-scaly with pyramidal warts in the centre.
Gills reasonably thick, white-cream to salmon.
Stem 7-13 cm x 10-25 mm, with pale sepia-brown girdles above the ring, with a pale grey-brown firm hanging-down toothed ring, with dark flakes on the underside, the stem below the ring becoming hairy-scaly from the sepia brown volva, which breaks up in scales around the base, base rooting.
Flesh white. Smell strikingly like wet rubber gloves.
Spores white to pale cream.
Occurrence
In broad-leaved woods and wooded banks with young broad-leaved trees (ash) on peat and clay. Late autumn.
Possibly Saprophyte.
Status
Rare (Red Data List, ed. 1)