In lawn near rotting Tilia stump. Growing in small clumps. Caps convex to flat with wavy margin, medium brown maturing to yellowish brown, 5-10 cm, covered with hairs that are golden near the cap edges and darken near the center of the cap. Gills white to cream, attached to subdecurrent, white cortina collapses to a yellowish ephemeral annulus. Stipe 10-15 mm thick at apex, widening toward the slightly swollen base, which stains yellow. Stipe pale brown covered with whitish fibrils. Base attached to black rhizomorph which is round in x.s.