Local name: No local name known

Edibility: Unknown

Habitat: Terrestrial among the mosses and solitary to scattered.

Description: Cap: 3-10 cm in diameter, convex to broadly convex with a central depression, dry, when young hairy to sub-scaly and  in maturity developing well defined scales with darkened tips, reddish brown to purplish brown and the margin often enrolled. Hymenophore: Decurrent teeth, crowded, teeth are 2-8 mm long, pale brown with whitish tips at first becoming darker brown with age. Stem: 5-10 cm tall and up to 2 cm thick, often tapered to the base, which frequently extends into the ground like a root, dry, fairly smooth, pale or brownish, base with prominent white to pink basal mycelium. Flesh: Whitish to pinkish, grey to black or greenish in stem base and soft. Spore Print: Brown.

Comments: Recognized by its brown to reddish brown or purplish brown colours, its appressed cap scales which develop as the mushroom matures, its greenish to bluish or black stem base, its bitter taste and under the microscope it lack clamp connections.