E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Summary:
Features include 1) a hygrophanous, pale red-brown cap that is finely white scaly to fibrillose, 2) ochraceous to grayish brown gills, 3) a stem that is pale reddish to grayish brown with abundant white veil forming a ring and floccose below, 4) growth under spruce, and 5) microscopic characters. The description is derived from Knudsen(1).

DNA sequencing indicates its presence in BC (Harrower(1)). It is also found in Europe (Knudsen(1)).

Cap:
1.5-3cm across, "bell-shaped, convex to expanded, often with a small papilla"; hygrophanous, pale red-brown, drying grayish ocher, often with blackish spots; "finely white scaly to fibrillose"

Flesh:
ochraceous to grayish brown

Gills:
crowded to medium-spaced; ochraceous to grayish brown

Stem:
4-8cm x 0.2-0.5cm, cylindric, fragile; "white fibrillose, pale reddish to greyish brown, darker downwards"

Veil:
"veil abundant, white, forming a ring and floccose below"

Odor:
indistinct

Microscopic spores:
spores 7.5-9 x 4.5-5.5 microns, elliptic, finely verrucose