Pileus: hemispherical, campanulate; 10 – 20 mm diameter; young specimens white with pink tint;glabrous with widely spaced dark brown scales which are denser at the top; indistinctly fibrillose.

Stipe: central, cylindrical to slightly clavate; 20-40 × 5-7 mm; glablous; white.

Gills: adnate; close; white maturing to black and barely deliquescing.

Flesh: white.

Spore print: black.

Spores: ellipsoid; 5 -7 × 4 µm.

Notes:this pinkish white fungus with distinctive dark brown scales is usually found singly or in small troopson logs and other woody substrates.