 Its color is initially whitish or light brown, but usually appears a darker rusty-brown in mature specimens that have dropped spores on it.Above the level of the ring, the stem surface has a very fine whitish powder and is paler than the cap; below the ring it is brown down to the reddish-brown to bistre base.The lower portion of the stem has a thin coating of pallid fibrils which eventually disappear and do not leave any scales.