Growing on the ground in mixed woods, and heavy with old logging debris. Caps up to 5.5 cm across, dry and smooth. Odor not distinctive. Spore print brown. Spores ~ 8.0-9.1 X 4.8-5.0 microns, oblong and smooth. Lots of gill cystidia, up to 65 X 17 microns, rostrate to broadly lageniform, most with thick-walled apices and some with encrustations.