Pileus: convex;50 - 85 mm diameter; soft, velvety but soon covered in fibrillose matted scales; clay buff at first, dirty buff, but scales becoming mid brown; margin appendiculate with characteristic undulate portions of veil hanging down at maturity.

Stipe: cylindrical; 80 – 120 × 10 – 25 mm;pale, white or with slight flush of lemonat apex, streaky fawn below.

Pores: lemon-yellow becoming greenish on bruising, brown as spores mature.

Flesh: firm, white to pale buff, turning greenish blue to dark blue in cap on exposure to air.

Spore print: olive brown.

Spores: elongated cylindrical, costate; 15 – 19 × 6 – 8 µm.