Described as new to science in 1998, the species is found in the southern United States where it grows in a mycorrhizal association with various trees in mixed forests.

The species was first described scientifically by mycologists Alan Bessette, Ernst Both, and Dail Dunaway in 1998, based on collections made in Mississippi.

The pore surface on the underside of the cap is yellow at first, but stains bluish green then dull olive when bruised.

It is solid (i.e., not hollow), dry, and marked by a reticulum (a network of raised ridges surface), especially on the upper portion.

Its fruit bodies grow singly, scattered, or in groups on the ground, typically near beech, hickory, and oak in mixed forests.