This is a medium to large agaric with buff or tan, greasy cap, clay gills and stoutish, pale stem. It grows solitary or in small groups on soil in open mixed woodland. The mushroom is moderately poisonous.

Cap buff to pale tan, convex then umbonate with an inrolled cap margin until old. Gills pale grey-brown and exude droplets in moist conditions, adnate or adnexed, crowded. Spores are rust colored. Stem whitish, fairly stout, more or less equal, granular towards apex and the thick flesh is white. The mushroom has no ring.

Hebeloma crustuliniforme on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.