Local name: No local name known

Edibility: Edible

Habitat: Terrestrial and solitary to scattered or gregarious.

Description: Cap: 2-5 cm in diameter, convex to convex-umbilicate, surface occasionally translucent-striate, finely powdery to fibrillose, finely scaly when it loses moisture, greyish-purple when young and violet-yellow with age. Hymenophore: Gills are sinuate, distant to sub-distant, greyish-purple. Stem: 2-8 cm tall and up to 1 cm wide, sub-clavate to bulbous, surface fibrillose, coarsely hairy or scaly of the same colour as the cap surface. Flesh: Violet. Spore Print: White.

Comments: This mushroom is easily recognized by the purple colour of the fruiting bodies, it has thick purple gills, white spore print, and a small cap that is initially purplish but soon fades to buff or brownish. L. amethystina differs from the other species of purple Laccaria by the spacing of the gills.