Tricholomopsis formosa (Murr.) Singer Cap 5-8cm across, convex to flat with an incurved margin; background color dark buff; covered with dark, brick-red, recurved scales. Gills adnate, crowded, edges fringed; whitish to yellowish. Stem 60-80 x 10-20mm, sometimes curved in age; dark brick red; hairy-scaly like the cap, longitudinally furrowed in age. Flesh firm. Odor unpleasant. Taste disagreeable. Spores pip-shaped, thin-walled, 6-7.2 x 4-5.7ì. Deposit white. Pleurocystidia absent; cheilocystidia present. Habitat on pine sawdust. Frequent. Found in Florida arid the Gulf Coast. Season July-November. Edibility not known -avoid.