Cap convex, then flattened, sometimes with a central bump, fibrous, buff-colouredwith a yellow brown with a darker centre, to about 3 cm across. Gills adnexed, thin, close, buff, darkening with age.  Spores warty.

other Naucoria - and many other 'little brown mushrooms' exist.

This is difficult to verify from photos, and we recommend that it is verified by an expert from a specimen before submission to NatureSpot.  Also photograph from top -down, in side view and from underneath showing gills.  Note habitat and substrate.

On damp ground with Alder.

Autumn

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.

Status in Leicestershire & Rutland not known.

Naucoria escharioides is in Hymenogastraceae in the Index Fungorum, but on the NBN it is in Strophariaceae