Pileus convex, then becoming almost plane, obtuse, even, smooth, slightly viscid when moist, honey-colour, disc reddish or with a reddish tinge all over, paler round the margin, becoming entirely pale, 2.5-8 cm. across; flesh thin, coloured like the pileus, white when dry; gills adnate, thin, crowded, about 4 mm. broad, yellowish-white, sometimes with a tinge of green, dry; spores broadly elliptical, ferruginous-brown, 10 x 6 µ; stem 6-12 cm. long, 2-8 mm. thick, often wavy, equal, rooting, adpressedly fibrillose, pale above, reddish-brown below, hollow.

Dannevirke, New Zealand. Europe.

On rotten trunks.

Caespitose or gregarious; somewhat resembling Hypholoma fasciculare, but distinguished by the long rooting base of the stem and the absence of a bitter taste.