Cap: width 12-28 mm. Stem: width 3-6 mm; length 40-60 mm.
Description:
Cap: semiglobate to convex and hardly expanding even with age, smooth, expallent, dull cinnamon-brown or dark tan-colour, becoming clay-colour or pale cinnamon-colour from centre outwards on drying and so sometimes appearing as if it is zoned.
Stem: slender, fragile, smooth and pale cinnamon-brown, except at apex where it is dotted with white; it is usually more brownish below.
Gills: adnate, crowded, pale brown and mottled, but becoming more uniformly umber-brown except for whitish margin.
Flesh: whitish or pale cinnamon colour.
Spore-print: purple-brown.
Spores: long, lemon-shaped under the microscope, dull brown, warted all over but for the distinct germ-pore; 12-15 × 7-8 µm in size.
Marginal cystidia: variable spindle-shaped with flexuous neck and subcapitate apex, about 5-6 µm wide.
Facial cystidia: absent.