Summary:
Features include a shining, bald cap that is ferruginous at the center and fulvous at margin, broad gills that are ferruginous-isabelline to fulvous, a striate stem that is whitish to isabelline-ferruginous, absent veil, growth on wood, a ferruginous spore deposit, verrucose dextrinoid spores, and other microscopic characters. The description is derived from Hesler(2).

Cap:
reaching 7cm across, convex to flat, finally depressed, slightly umbonate when young; ferruginous at center, margin fulvous; shining, bald

Gills:
sinuate-adnate with decurrent tooth, broad, slightly ventricose [broader in middle]; "ferruginous-isabelline to fulvous"

Stem:
about 6cm long, 1-1.6cm wide, equal or with enlarged base; "whitish to isabelline-ferruginous"; longitudinally striate

Microscopic spores:
spores 6-8 x 5-6 microns, elliptic, oval, or nearly round, verrucose, no germ pore, dextrinoid; basidia 4-spored, 28-40 x 6-7 microns; pleurocystidia none, cheilocystidia 25-40 x 4-6 microns, "filamentous, subcylindric, or subventricose, sometimes capitate"; gill trama subparallel, hyphae 6-10 microns wide, subhymenium not distinctive; cap trama radial, cap cuticle "of repent hyphae, at times some of the surface hyphae loosen and become semi-erect"; caulocystidia none, sometimes tufts of erect hyphae are present; clamp connections present

Spore deposit:
ferruginous

Notes:
The holotype was found in OR. It was reported by Davidson and Lowe for BC.

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