A small fungus, with cap colour that varies from pale buff-yellow to tan or darker reddish brown.  The cap has a fine granular surface and may become radially wrinkled with age.  There is a marked contrast between the smoothness of stipe above the ring and the scaliness below.  Spore print white or pale cream.

Photograph from top down and from side; note habitat

Short grasslands, e.g pasture, churchyards, cemeteries; often in unimproved grassland with waxcaps and Entoloma

Autumn

Fairly frequent and widespread in Britain

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.

This species is no longer assigned to a family on the NBN.  We have kept it in Agaricaceae because some sources still place it here.