Cap 1 to 2.5 cm across, bell-shaped then expanding with a broad umbo, reddish-brown, densely covered in minute erect scales. Young specimens have a veil.  Stem tinged violaceous at apex, thinly covered in brownish cottony tufts towards the base. 

other Inocybe

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Difficult to identify with certainty from photos; we recommend they are verified by an expert from a specimen prior to submission to NatureSpot.  Also photograph from top down, in side-view and from underneath showing gills; note smell, habitat and substrate

Associated with trees, sometimes in damp deciduous and coniferous woods. 

Season summer to autumn.

Infrequently recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland