A reddish-brown, finely furfuraceous Laccaria with distant thick lamellae, twisted silky-fibrillose stipes, and finely echinulate globose spores.

Cap: 10-35 mm diam., hemispherical when young, becoming convex to plano‑convex at maturity. Centre often truncate and flattened, occasionally centrally depressed. Hygrophanous, non-viscid, inconspicuously pellucid-striate at the margin when wet, not striate when dry. Surface finely furfuraceous, reddish brown to dark reddish brown, drying pallid fawn to buff.
Gills: adnexed to adnate, distant, intermixed, thick, to 5 mm deep; flesh pink, glaucous.
Stipe: 25-70 mm long, ± equal or slightly tapering apically, 2-5 mm diam., dry, hollow, often twisted, coarsely and sparingly longitudinally fibrillose, giving a silky sheen; reddish brown; flesh concolorous. Basal mycelium white.