Fruit bodies to 50 mm across, simple or confluent, flat to funnel-shaped, radially silky-striate. Texture tough and leathery. Teeth usually pale grey-lilac when fresh. Dried specimens have a distinctive fenugreek-like odour. On the ground in forest and heathland. Spores c. 4 x 3 um, broadly ellipsoidal, spiny. Spore print white. Reference: A field guide to Australian Fungi by Bruce Fuhrer, 2005, Bloomings Books Pty Ltd, page 243.