Cap starts off nearly cup-shaped when young, but quickly develops two raised lobes and becomes lobed; it is smooth, loosely wrinkled (but not brainlike), and comes in various colours ranging from tan to yellowish-brown, reddish-brown, or dark brown; the undersurface is whitish to brownish, finely dusted, and sometimes attaches to the stem. Stem equal to enlarged at the base, stuffed or hollow, round to compressed, sometimes with a longitudinal fold, surface glabrous to subpubescent, coloured like the cap or lighter.
Microscopic Features: Spores are narrowly ellipsoid, measuring 17-24 x 7-11 µ, smooth, with two large oil droplets, and may have slightly thickened walls at the ends resembling shallow apiculi. Asci are 8-spored. Paraphyses are capitate, 7-10 µ wide, and contain red granular contents.
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