Deceiver or Wood woollyfoot

The cap is small, 2-5 cm across, convex when young, later flattening or becoming depressed, with a thin, wavy edge. It's rusty orange, cinnamon-brick or reddish-brown: darker and richer in wet weather, paler and faded when dry (hygrophanous). The surface is silky-matte and smooth, and the edge often shows fine radial striations.

The cap is 2 to 7 cm across, usually 3 to 6 cm, convex with an inrolled margin at first, then flattening, sometimes with a low broad bump or a slight dip; old caps have a wavy, wrinkled or grooved edge.

The surface is hygrophanous, smooth or finely fibrous, dry and matt, sometimes with small white felty spots. The colour varies a lot: pinkish cream, yellowish buff, ochre or reddish brown, darker in the centre.

The gills are widely spaced and thick, attached or slightly decurrent. Their colour echoes the cap: pinkish orange, turning cinnamon in old mushrooms, with a characteristic whitish, floury bloom of spores. The spore print is white.

The gills are widely spaced and narrow, narrowly attached or almost free, pale yellowish at first and turning reddish brown with age.

The spore print is white to pale cream.

The stem is 3-7 cm tall and 0.3-0.6 cm thick, slender, cylindrical and often curved. It's rusty orange, matching the cap, with lengthwise fibres. There's white mycelial fuzz at the base and no ring. In old mushrooms the stem becomes hollow.

The stem is 3 to 8 cm tall and 0.3 to 0.8 cm thick, cylindrical and slightly wider at the base, tough and hollow, cap-coloured or yellowish brown, paler and finely frosted at the top. There's no ring.

The lower half is densely covered in white to yellowish woolly hairs that bind the leaf litter at the base.

The flesh is thin, rusty cream and soft. It doesn't change colour when cut and has no pronounced taste.

The flesh is thin, tough and pale yellowish to brownish yellow.

Faint and neutral, mildly mushroomy, with no particular notes. The taste is mild and unremarkable.

The smell is faint and indistinct, slightly sour according to some descriptions. The taste is burning and peppery.