Description: Small to medium sized agaric, on
ground close to Pistacia/Pinus sp. amongst
grass, solitary to scattered, terrestrial.
Pileus: Dull bronze coloured to greyish brown
paler at the margin, with brownish fibrils, flat
centrally depressed or with central umbo,
radially fibrillose, striated at margins, dry;
25-36mm diameter. Stipe: Whitish, glabrous in some specimens,
pubescent in others, straight to slight thinning
towards the base, with glabrous volva; 3-6mm
diameter, 25-35mm height. Gills: Free, close, pink to pinkish brown.
Microscopy: Gill trama: Convergent. Basidia: 4-spored. Cheilocystidia: Abundant, variously shaped
from broad to elongated. Pleurocystidia: Present variously shaped but
mostly elongated some with deposits near
cystidial centre. Spores: Ellipsoid, pale pink-brown, smooth,
guttulate, germ pore absent;
5.8-7.4µm x 4.2-5.3µm; Q=1.19-1.69, Qm: 1.38