Cap: width 4-7 mm. Stem: width 1 mm; length 10-15 mm.
Description: [Plate 76].
Cap: white then greyish, globose at first and then expanding to become plane with upturned margin covered, at first, with scales from a veil which at the centre are white-tipped with ochre.
Stem: white and slightly downy.
Spore-print: brownish black.
Spores: elliptic-ovoid, only slightly compressed with distinct germ-pore, dark brown under the microscope and 6-8 × 5 µm in size.
Marginal cystidia: ellipsoid to pyriform and hyaline.
Facial cystidia: elongate cylindric larger than marginal cystidia.