The cap surface is white at first with a brown centre disc that remains truncate and flattened on the top, the disc breaks up into brown scales which are easily rubbed off to reveal the silky white surface beneath.

The surface is cream coloured, smooth above the ring but covered in short, fine felty hairs below which can be rubbed off.

The position of the ring on the stem is not noted in either description, however accompanying drawings by Mary Maytham Kidd show it toward the top of the cap (superior to apical).

Gills: Pearson notes that they have a bulge in the middle (ventricose), are 3-5mm wide with fimbriate edges and that the white surface stains lemon yellow in places.

[3] The specimens studied by Pearson were found growing in trooping groups near various trees and shrubs in the South-West corner of the former Cape Province of South Africa.

[5] The specific epithet truncatus (originally truncata) likely refers to the truncated central disc which this species displays.