Generally solitary. Pileus 4-10 cm. across, flesh white, thick at the disc, becoming very thin towards the margin, campanulate, then expanded, even, at first glabrous, then becoming broken up into fibrillose squamules that soon disappear, smoky, with a yellow, brown, or fawn-coloured tinge; gills free, crowded, 4-8 mm. broad, white, then salmon-colour; spores broadly elliptical, smooth, 7-8 x 5-6 µ; cystidia ventricose, often spinose at the apex; stem 5-12 cm. long, 1 cm. and more thick, equal, pale and sprinkled with blackish fibrils, solid.

New Zealand. Victoria, Tasmania, Ceylon, South Africa, Europe.

On trunks and stumps.