Pileus: convex; 40 – 105 mm diameter; velutinate; dark brown (7F6, 8F6), margin inrolled in younger specimens.

Stipe: tapering towards base, hard; 20 – 40 × 8 – 18 mm; velutinate; dark brown (7F6) with a pale cream base.

Gills: decurrent or subdecurrent; cream, bruising pink which then browns; with lamellulae intercalated in 1 or 2 series.

Milk: scarce, watery with white cloudy contents.

Spores: ellipsoid; 7 – 9.9 × 6 – 8.1 µm, average 1.1 ± 0.09; ornamentation of low amyloid warts and ridges forming a weak reticulum.

Notes: very like L. sepiaceus but distinguished by pink bruising and turned pink by the milk.