Laccaria tortilis

Description
Cap hemispherical or flat to bell-shaped, often somewhat depressed centrally, Ø 5-15 mm, smooth, translucently striped, pink brown with a darker centre, with a wavy or folded rim, rim with white veil remnants when young.
Gills wide apart, somewhat inclining on the stem, light pink brown, white by the spores.
Stem 8-20 mm x 1-3 mm, smooth to somewhat fibrous, ochre to pink brown. Flesh thin, whitish with pink tinge. Smell weak.

Occurrence
In groups often near very young deciduous trees and with shrubs in forests and shrubberies in trenches and along path and road side and often on bare soil.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.

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