Lepiota aspera is an uncommon mycorrhizal fungus found on the forest floor, and easily confused with similar spined Lepiota species. It is an especially Northern Hemisphere species where is is often called "Freckled Dapperling". Cap to 100 mm, cream, with many reddish-brown, prominent, pointed scales, crowded in the centre; cap is markedly convex but tends to flatten out with age. Gills close, white, discolours with age, not joined to stem at centre; spore print white, (mistakenly stated as yellow-brown by Fuhrer). Stem sturdy, (100x15 mm), pallid, prominent skirt-like ring which ofen falls off with age; stem dry, smooth, fibrillose-scaly below ring. NB: Best regarded as quite toxic. Melba Gully, Otway Ranges, 2010.