Description
Cap convex to expanded, with depressed centre, Ø 8-15 mm, dry, matt, whitish cream to beige, with radial, orange-brown to red-brown, fibrous scales, centre dark red-brown to black-brown, denticulate at the margin.
Gills broad, nearly free, whitish to cream.
Stem 1-3 cm x 0.5-2 mm, tough, felted-hairy, dark red-brown to rusty brown. Flesh cream. Smell faint, spicy.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Fairly common on grasses and grass debris in sand dunes, poor grasslands and open shrubberies, also on branches of deciduous trees and on Clematis in deciduous woods on calcareous clay or loam.
Saprophyte.