Summary:
Subgenus Phlegmacium. Notable are the long pleurocystidia. Other features include a glutinous, tan to honey yellow young cap often with an olive tone, young gills that are yellowish brown or olive brown, a dry stem, which is olive-buff in its lower part from a dense coating of fibrils, and silky olivaceous to more yellowish in upper part, ovate pointed to round spores, and large cystidia. The description derived from Smith(9) except where noted.

Cap:
3.5-5cm across, convex with margin inrolled, expanding to nearly flat; 'some with agglutinated fibrils along margin, variously colored "Isabella color" to "honey yellow" and finally near "sayal brown" or mottled "dark olive-buff" on an "Isabella color" background, some "light brownish olive" over all, occasionally splashed with fulvous in age'^; bald, "glutinous to viscid but soon dry and shining", (Smith), 1.5-6cm, yellow brown, ocher, with olivaceous tone, (Moser), up to 7cm across, olive-ocher to tawny; somewhat viscid, fibrillose-felty, (Courtecuisse)

Flesh:
mottled "snuff brown" and "buffy brown" becoming honey yellow or more fulvous when old^, (Smith), pale, sometimes more yellow or violaceous, (Courtecuisse)

Gills:
"depressed-adnate to broadly adnate or subdecurrent, narrow and intervenose but becoming moderately broad"; ''"citrine drab" to "buffy brown," in some "brownish olive," "light brownish olive" or "Isabella color," slowly changing to cinnamon brown or more fulvous (near "raw sienna")'', (Smith), distant; when young olive-gray, gray-green, when old brown-gray, red-brown, (Moser), distant; olive bister then rusty olive brown, (Courtecuisse)

Stem:
3-5cm x (0.4)0.6-1(1.5)cm, short, club-shaped becoming subequal [more or less equal], stuffed, olive buff in lower part from a dense coating of fibrils, "with a median to superior fibrillose zone and at times the sheath breaking up into obscure zones", in upper part silky and sordid olivaceous at first, when old paler and more yellowish (near "honey color"), a few "with an obscure violaceous tinge in apex", (Smith), 4-9cm x 0.4-1.5cm, clavate, pale ochraceous (Moser), up to 10cm long and 1cm wide, +/- concolorous or paler; fibrillose, (Courtecuisse)

Veil:
median to superior fibrillose zone

Odor:
faintly pungent but hardly distinctive, (Smith), incense or cedar wood (Moser for Europe), Russian leather (mixed with pencil wood), (Courtecuisse for Europe), pleasant, incense, cedar wood, (Buczacki)

Taste:
mild to slightly bitterish or with bitterish aftertaste, (Smith), bitter, unpleasant, (Buczacki)

Microscopic spores:
spores 7-9 x 6-7 microns, ovate-pointed to nearly round, slightly roughened, rusty brown in KOH; basidia 4-spored, 27-33 x 7-8 microns, yellowish in KOH; pleurocystidia abundant, 50-80(100) x 8-10 microns, "in water mounts of fresh material often with an incrusting sheath, smooth as revived in KOH", colorless and thin-walled, "narrowly ventricose to subcylindric or neck tapered, wavy and with acute apices", cheilocystidia similar to pleurocystidia but shorter, (Smith), spores 7.5-8 x 5.8-6.5 microns, rounded; with encrusted cystidia 50-70 x 8-22 microns (illustrated), (Moser)

Spore deposit:
red-brown (Buczacki)

Notes:
It has been found at least in WA (1948) and OR (1947) by Smith. It was sequenced by Liimatainen(2) from BC, Finland, and Sweden.

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