Macroscopy:
Pileus -21 mm, conical or hemispherical at first, expanding to plano-convex or applanate,
often with small, blunt papilla, with slightly deflexed or straight margin, which often e
xceeds the lamellae, hygrophanous, translucently striate up to half or three-quarter of t
he radius, reddish brown at centre, paler towards margin (Mu. 5 YR 4-5/6-8, 7.5 YR 7-6/6-
8, margin 7.5 YR 4-7/4-6), strongly pallescent on drying, strongly viscid with pellicle
entirely separable as a thin, gelatinous membrane. Veil usually distinct in form of small
fibrillose-arachnoid patches, especially in marginal zone, but never appendiculate, often
(partly) disappearing with age. Lamellae, L = 12-26, l = 1-7, moderately crowded, broadl
y adnate with decurrent tooth, sometimes emarginate with decurrent tooth, segmentiform t
o subventricose, pale brown then reddish yellow to reddish brown (7.5 YR (5-)6-7/4-6, ra
rely 5 YR 6/5), lacking a purple or red-brown tint when old, with fimbriate, slightly paler edge.
Microscopy:
Spores 7.0-10.0 x 5.0-7.0 x 4.0-6.0, average = 7.8-8.6 x 5.9-6.1 x 5.0-5.3; ovoid to subrhomboid or slightly angular, Qf = 1.2-1.4-1.6, ellipsoid-oblong, Qs = 1.4-1.6-1.8 in side-view, with thin or only slightly thickened, pale brown walls, with small to medium-sized apical germ-pore. Basidia, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 15-32 x 3.0-10 µm, lageniform with 1.5-4.0 µm wide, blunt neck. Pileipellis an 70-130 µm thick ixocutis of narrow, cylindrical, 1.0-3.0 µm wide, colourless or finely incrusted hyphae; subpellis com-pact, made up of cylindrical to inflated elements, 20-90 x 3.0-15 µm with strong brown incrusted walls. Clamp-connections present in all tissues.
Ecology:
Saprotrophic, usually in small groups, on dead leaves of grasses and sedges.
Distribution:
Wide spread all over the temperate zone.
