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.
Descolea recedens is listed in the following regions:
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