Pileus: convex; up to 50 - 60 mm diameter; fibrillose; dry; greyish brown fibres on a paler  buff  base; margin acute.

Stipe: cylindrical; 50 – 60 × 10 – 12 mm; dry; buff and covered in straw coloured squamules.

Gills: adnate; moderately spaced; pinkisk lilac, darkening to rusty brown as the spores mature; lamellulae present in one intercalated series.

Flesh: moderately thin, off-white.

Spore print: rusty brown.                       

Spores:

Notes: this Cortinarius is probably in the subgenus Telamonia.