Habitat and habit: garden bed mulched last year with hardwood chips, leaf mold, and wheat straw. Rhizomorphs primarily attached to leaf mold. Caps single to cespitose Cap: diameter 3-6.2 cm, tightly convex opening to broadly convex. Margin inrolled for a long time. Damp or dry but not tacky. Smooth but mature caps deeply rimose, exposing pale creamy flesh. Button color caramel brown centrally, surrounded by gray brown and rimmed with a narrow ash gray band of partial veil. Mature caps yellow brown. Gills: adnexed to adnate with a long decurrent tooth. Not particularly close. Three tiers of short gills. Pale yellow brown, developing cigar brown stains Stipe: clavate. Length to 8 cm. Diameter at apex to 1 cm, base to 2 cm. Pruinose in upper half, fibrillose below. Stuffed, hollowing at maturity. Yellow brown. Cortex readily splits circumferentially with free edges recurving. Creamy rhizomorphs at base. Partial veil: an ash gray band on the cap margin of buttons. Detached from the stipe even at cap diameters of 2-3 mm. No visible evidence on stipe at any stage. Context: pale cream in the cap and outer layers of the stipe. Stipe pith white. Odor and Taste: mealy, no bitterness