Pileus |
16-37 mm wide, convex to plane convex, velutinous to matted-velutinous, reddish to pinkish, with olive yellowish pruina all over |
25-33(-47) mm wide, broadly convex to planate, areolate, occasionally with a low umbo, pinkish red |
37-77 mm broad, broadly convex, areolate to matted-tomentose, dark red |
Hymenophore |
Sulphureus yellow, unchanging with pressure |
Olivaceous, unchanging with pressure |
Olivaceous yellow, darkening slightly with pressure |
Stipe |
26-54 mm × 3-5 mm, glabrous to vertically rugulose to reticulate, whitish to light yellow at the top, reddish to pink in the center, and citrine yellow in the base |
37-63 × 5-7 mm, pinkish red over upper two-thirds, lower third light yellow, glabrous, sligtly pulverulent and faintly longitudinally striate |
39-70 × 9-14 mm, light yellow squamules on concolorous ground |
Basidiospores |
6-8 × 4-5 µm (Qm=1.60), broadly ellipsoid, olivaceous |
6-9 × 4-5.5(-7) µm (Qm= 1.38), ellipsoid, with proemiment suprahilar depression, olivaceous brown |
9-12 × 4.5-6.5 µm (Qm= 1.94), ellipsoid, with a proeminent suprahilar depression, olivaceous brown |
Pleurocystidia |
Similar in shape and size, 34-62 × 8-11 µm, fusoid to ventricose-rostrate, usually with a long neck, conspicuous |
34.5-61 × 7.5-10µm, narrowly to broadly ventricose rostrate, infrequent |
32-64 × 10-15 µm, ventricose to ventricose-rostrate, infrequent to scattered |
Cheilocystidia |
Absent |
29.5-39 × 67-10 µm, broadly ventricose-rostrate or obclavate, infrequent |
Reaction with NH4OH |
Bluing on pileus surface and ferrugineous-orange on the stipe |
Slightly yellowing on pileus, unreactive elsewhere |
Slightly yellowing or unreactive on all surfaces |