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).

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

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

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