BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This description is based on that of Bas (>1969).

>The cap of A. silvifuga is 90 - 150 mm wide, convex to plano-convex, sometimes plano-concave with age, rather fleshy, white to pale ochraceous buff, dry, with a nonstriate, appendiculate margin.  The cap is scattered with adnate, felted-fibrillose, conical to subconical, small to moderately large, reddish brown to brown, with age concolorous warts, sometimes passing into small fibrillose scales towards the margin.

The gills are free to remote, crowded to subdistant, and white.  The short gills are attenuate.

The stem is 75 - 110 x 10 - 20 mm, white, cylindric, more or less narrowing downward, with incomplete girdles of white, appressed to recurving, submembranous scales below the ring.

The spores measure (8.0-) 8.2 - 11.0 (-13.5) x 5.5 - 7.5 (-9.5) µm and are amyloid and ellipsoid.  Clamps are present at bases of basidia.

The species was originally described from Texas, where it appeared on a college campus in an area lacking potential woody plant symbionts.