Gills: white or whitish at first then dirty pinkish brown, adnate and emarginate.
Spore-print: dull salmon-pink.
Spores: medium to long, angular, ellipsoid-oblong, slightly cinnamon-colour under the microscope and 9-12 × 7-8 µm in size.
Marginal cystidia: conspicuous, spindle or bottle-shaped and with subcapitate apex.
Facial cystidia: absent.
Hypholoma ericaeum (Fries) Kühner
Cap: width 15-30 mm. Stem: width 4-7 mm; length 50-100 mm.
Description:
Cap: fleshy, convex, later becoming flattened but remaining slightly umbonate at the centre, viscid at first, smooth and shining when dry, bright reddish to sand-colour or brown.
Stem: slender, yellow above, brown below, smooth and tough.