Habitat Solitary to gregarious in coniferous forests near Tsuga, usually subalpine
zone in Japan. Summer-fall. Japanese name = Tsugatake.
Pileus 40-80 mm across,
hemispherical when young, later convex to plane,
margin in-curved for a long time. Surface
at first covered with brown fibrous veil in a radial pattern thinly, soon disappeared (or
remained near the margin), occasionally with whitish fragment sparsely, then
cracked, later almost smooth,
usually darker-spotted from the velar remnants in the gelatinous layer, dull when dry, lubricous and somewhat shiny when moist, ocher-yellow
to orange-yellow, paler toward the margin, jointed to the stipe by a white
cortina when young.
Flesh white, odor faint, pleasant, taste mild.
KOH on the flesh orange ocher-brown.
Lamellae whitish when young, later ocher-brown, narrow, edges slightly crenate.
Stipe 60-90 x 10-20 mm, cylindrical to clavate, flexible, solid, base up to 30 mm thick, surface often conspicuously banded or coarsely squamose on a white background from the ocher-yellow vail.
