Glistening inkcap or Fairy inkcap

Young caps are egg-shaped, 1 to 2.5 cm, then bell-shaped and convex, 2 to 4 cm across, occasionally 5 cm; with age the margin splits and turns up. The colour is honey brown, ochre or russet, darker in the centre and paler at the edge, greying with age. The surface is grooved almost to the centre.

Young caps are covered in tiny white, glittering grains like sugar or mica. Rain and dew wash them off, so older caps are bare.

Young caps are egg-shaped, up to 8 mm, then bell-shaped, 0.5 to 1.5 cm across, occasionally 2 cm, opening only a little. They start cream with an ochre centre, later grey or greyish brown, the centre staying ochre.

The surface is pleated from the margin almost to the centre, and young caps are finely hairy and granular under a hand lens. The cap is very fragile.

The gills are crowded, attached or free, white at first, then grey-brown, purplish brown and black. With age they blacken and partly dissolve, though less completely than in the common inkcap.

The spore print is black-brown to black.

The gills are attached and fairly widely spaced for an inkcap, white at first, then grey and blackish. They don't dissolve into ink, though they can soften in rain.

The spore print is black to blackish brown.

The stem is 3 to 8 cm tall, occasionally 10 cm, and 2 to 5 mm thick, white, silky, hollow and brittle, ochre or brownish at the base. Young stems show a fine down under a hand lens. There's no ring.

The stem is 1.5 to 4 cm tall, occasionally 5 to 6 cm, and 1 to 2 mm thick, white, translucent, hollow, very fragile, often curved, and finely downy when young. There's no ring or volva.

The flesh is very thin, brittle and whitish.

The flesh is very thin, almost membranous, and fragile.

The smell isn't distinctive.

The smell and taste aren't distinctive.