Descolea recedens

Cap:-  to 40 mm, convex, flattening with age, dark red-brown when wet, lighter red-brown when dry (hygrophanous), with characteristic pale yellowish-brown scales when young; cap margins striate.

Gills:-  moderately distant, pale brown, darker with maturity, irregular edges; spore print rust brown.

Stem:-  has a characteristically prominent, striate, soft, membraneous ring, palebrown, two-thirds of the way up the stem. Stem widens at base, robust approx. 50x6 mm, finely fibrillose; red-brown,  paler than cap.