How to identify it?
Fruiting Body
Fruiting body medium sized; like an underground egg or lump.
Cap
Cap 2-5 cm across, conical to hemispherical, brown. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Stem
Stem 7-40 cm long, 0.4-1.5 cm thick, cylindrical, base volva-like; pale brown; surface scaly or fibrillose.

Scientific Classification

Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Agaricaceae Genus
Battarrea Species
Sandy stiltball