Cap up to 45 mm., pink brown with darker brown spots that look like pot holes under the hand lens, sticky, sunken center, paler inrolled margin, thick pallid flesh. Gills pink buff, crowded, narrow, attached. Stem sticky,hollow, color of gills, up to 40 mm. x 20 mm., tapered at apex and base, white mycelia at base of stem. Peppery white latex, non-staining. Pleasant odor, taste mildly hot. In moss on/near rotten wood in mixed woods.