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Cap: 4-5 cm broad at maturity. Convex tocampanulate, then broadly convex, finally expanding to nearly planewith a broad umbo. Cinnamon brown to orange cinnamon brown, fading totan in drying with a dark brown encircling zone around the margin.

Gills: Attachment adnate touncinate, close, slightly swollen in the center, and with three tiersof intermediate gills inserted. Color brownish and mottled, with theedges remaining whitish, blackish when fully mature.

Stem: 50-60 mm long by 2-4 mmthick. Brittle, hollow, and fibrous. Reddish beneath minute whitishfibrils, darkening downwards. Sometimes bruising bluish at the base.

Microscopic features: Sporesblack in deposit, lemon shaped in side view, subellipsoid in face view.11.5-14 by 7.5-9.5 microns. Basidia 2- and 4-spored. Pleurocystidiaabsent. Cheilocystidia variable in form, mostly pear shaped, 14-21 by3-7 microns.

Habit, habitat and distribution:Grows cespitosely to gregariously in dung (especially horse dung),compost, rotting hay and in well manured ground in the spring, summerand early fall. Widely distributed. Reported from North America, SouthAmerica, Europe, middle Siberia, Africa and Hawaiian archipelago.

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