[1][2] It was described in 2011 by the mycologists Roy Watling, Mustafa Işıloğlu and Hayrünisa Baş Sermenlı who classified it as Conocybe volviradicata.

The surface is cinnamon to sienna brown but dries to a buff or yellowish cream colour.

Stem: 3cm long and 3mm thick with a cream colour surface and distinct striations running to the start of the volva.

[4] The specific epithet volviradicata is named in reference to the volvate, rooting stipe.

[4] The specimens studied by Watling, Işıloğlu and Sermenlı were found growing on manured soil on the border of a vegetable garden in Southwest Turkey.