Shaggy Scalycap

- Cap convex to expanded, yellowish-white with brown projecting scales.
- Gills adnate to slightly decurrent, at first whitish-yellow, then brown from the spores.
- Stem yellowish-white, covered with brown scales from the base up to the ring.
- Ring shaggy and fibrillose.
- Flesh yellowish-white, with an unpleasant radish-like smell.

Grows in tufts on rotten deciduous wood and at the base of standing deciduous trees, rarely on conifers.

Inedible but probably not poisonous.