This species is a little odd in that it changes colour as it ages. It starts out as a lovely purple colour, then slowly goes tan. There is also good photo evidence that this is an 'ammonia fungus' as it appears in good numbers around dead and well decayed animal remains.

Cap: 5-35 mm diam.; convex to plano-convex when young, becoming plano-convex or occasionally applanate at maturity. Hygrophanous, non-viscid, pellucid-striate at the margins when wet. Surface glabrous or minutely furfuraceous in the centre. Colour violaceous with buff tints when young, the violaceous tones fading progressively until the pileus becomes entirely buff at maturity.
Gills: Adnexed to adnate, distant, intermixed, thick, to 4 mm deep. Colour pallid violaceous when young, fading through violaceous-tinted brownish pink to finally pallid brownish pink; occasionally faint violaceous tones persist. Glaucous.
Stipe: To 100 mm long; tapering apically; 1-2.5 mm diam. at apex, 3-6 mm basally. Tough, dry, hollow; longitudinally fibrillose-sulcate. Colour violaceous when young, becoming buff from the base upward, finally entirely buff except for violaceous tints at the extreme apex. Flesh concolorous with exterior. Basal mycelium pallid violaceous.
Context:Pileus context thin, concolorous with exterior. Stipe context reddish‑buff.
Odour/tast: Not distinctive.