[2] The cap is 4 to 8 cm in diameter, initially convex in shape, before becoming broadly convex to plane as it ages; The surface is dry with small hair, dark purple to vinaceous brown.

The flesh is white and does not turn blue when bruised.

The pores are whitish when young, becoming cream to yellowish, unchanged when bruised.

From 4.5 to 10 cm long; 1.2–1.5 cm thick; concolorous or paler than the pileus; reticulated; shaped clavate to subcylindrical.

[2] Solitary or gregarious in the Lithocarpus forests in Southwest China.