Melanoleuca strictipes (Karst.) Schaeff. syn. M. evenosa (Sacc.) Konrad & Maubl. Steifstieliger Weichritterling. Cap 4–10cm across, convex and slightly umbonate, white to cream or pallid, sometimes darker at the centre. Stem 80–140 x 8–12mm, swollen at the base or bulbous, concolorous with cap or paler, fibrous and often twisted. Flesh thick, white. Taste slight, smell strongly of meal. Gills white to cream sometimes slightly tinged pinkish. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, lanceolate often encrusted with crystals at apex. Spore print white. Spores elliptic, minutely warted, amyloid, 8–9 x 4.5–5um. Habitat amongst grass in open woodland or pasture. Season early summer to autumn. Rare. Said to be edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Found In Europe.