[1][2] It was described in 2002 by the Egon Horak, Anton Hausknecht and Dennis E. Desjardin who classified it as Conocybe volviornata.

The surface is pinkish-beige with a reddish-brown centre and a white fluffy to velvety coating from the pileicystidia.

It is membranous, dry, thin and brittle and very strongly hygrophanous with the striations being visible from the margin to centre when moist.

Stem: 4.5–9 cm long and 1.5-2mm thick tapering upwards slightly from a 6mm wide base.

[3] The specimens studied by Horak, Hausknecht and Desjardin were found growing on soil in Indonesian rainforests dominated by Fagaceae trees.