Pileus: Glabrous except some times at the margin with white veil fragments, but the context often splitting into scales; not viscid. Colour dark purple to purple-red when young, fading to light purple-pink when wet. Hygrophanous, fading to drab, pallid pink-tan.

Lamelle: Pink when young, turning brown to dark brown with a reddish tinge, and white fimbriate- the gill edge nearest where the lamelle meet the stipe are dusted white. Adnate attachment.

Stipe: Hollow, brown-pink or pale pink, often minutely fibrillose near the base, turning abruptly canescent snow white at the apex where the gills meet.

Spores: 12-15 × 6-7.5µm, smooth, elliptic to suboblong, with apical germ pore.
Basidia: 4-sterigmate, 20-30 × 10-14µm
Pleurocystidia: Scattered, 50-70 × 10-18µm, fusoid-ventricose, apex rounded to some what capitate.
Cheilocystida: Similar to Pleurocystidia but smaller.
Caulocystidia: Scattered in clusters, similar to Pleurocystidia but often larger, up to 100µm in length, apex obtuse.

Lignicolous or terrestrial, preferring wood chips where it some times fruits in great numbers, but also from soil or sandy dirt, often in cespitose clusters, or gregarious.

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