Substrate: rotting wood, sawdust, and humus

Spores: fall and winter

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Cap: 1.5-4 cm broad, soon broadly convex to broadly umbonate or plane; surface smooth, viscid when moist, gray to grayish-brown, often with a purplish or lilac tint (center sometimes darker); sometimes fading in age; conspicuously striate, at least at margin. Flesh very think, whitish. Gills: adnexed to free, narrow, close, pallid soon becoming pinkish brown or cinnamon-brown. Stalk: 2.5-7 cm long, 2-3 mm thick, equal or thicker at base, very fragile, smooth or minutely scurfy or powdery; entirely white or tinged yellow at base.

Sources: Arora, David. Mushrooms Demystified. Berkeley, Ten Speed Press, 1986.