A medium‑sized, dark brown hygrophanous species with a strongly striate cap, free lamellae, and white‑fibrillose stipe base. The watery dark‑brown context and 5-6-angled spores help distinguish it from other brown conical Entoloma.

Note: E. pluteimorphum and E. translucidum were combined, so we now have two quite distinctive species under the same name: a large species with a radial band and a smaller one with a striated margin that is described on this page.

Pileus: 25-60 mm diam., at first conical, later convexo‑umbonate or papillate. Dark brown, drying light brown with reddish tints. Disc squamulose; toward the margin velvety or fibrillose. Strongly striate, dry, hygrophanous.
Lamellae: (L to ~30, l 1-3) free, ventricose, beige when young, turning pinkish‑brown. Edges concolorous.
Stipe: 40-80 x 2-6 mm, cylindrical or attenuated upward, coloured like pileus or paler. Densely covered, especially near base in with white fibrils. Dry, fistulose, very brittle.
Context: dark brown, watery.
Odour/taste: not distinctive.