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Laccaria laccata (Fries) Cooke Deceiver
Cap: width 12-28 mm. Stem: width 4-8 mm; length 15-60 mm.
Description:
Cap: hygrophanous, reddish brown or brick-colour becoming ochraceous on drying, but can be rapidly returned to the original colour by placing on the top a drop of water which is rapidly absorbed; fragile, convex at first then flattened or depressed about centre, smooth or surface scaley, striate at margin when moist.
Stem: similarly coloured to the cap, fibrous, cylindrical, tough and usually with white woolly base.
Gills: adnate with or without a decurrent tooth, thick, distant and pinkish or pale reddish-brown, powdered with white when mature.
Flesh: red-brown, soft in the cap and fibrous in the stem.
Spore-print: pure white.