This is one of the most common Phlegmacium species in Denmark.

It can be very large and in many ways reminds of a C. coerulescens lacking the blue colours. It ranges from almost white to brownish as the base colour is pale brown, but the cuticle is covered by pale (sometimes glossy) veil. The cap is often fibrillose.

It has amygdaloid-citriform spores, whereas the closely related C. coerulescentium has purely ellipsoid spores. Furthermore C. coerulescentium lacks velar patches, often has more grey-bluish tinges and posesses a unpleasant smell (like Lepiota cristata, Scleroderma).

The right name for this taxon might be C. caroviolaceus!

Pale variants of this species (like this photo) and C. coerulescentium are probably interpreted as C. rapaceous by some. C rapaceous is described from conifers and the name is hard to interpret.