Pale yellow with grayish or brownish orange bruises and discoloration Gills: broadly attached, white to pale yellow with brownish orange to light brown stains where bruised.

Parallel sides but tapered sharply at the base, occasionally swelling in the middle, moist, nearly scaly or finely fibrillose.

Flesh is pale yellow developing brownish orange colors near the base Spores: Rusty brown, ellipsoid, roughened or wrinkled, with distinctly  conical points, darkening in KOH 7.1–10×4.4–6.2 μm Habitat: saprotrophic on hardwoods mainly stumps and roots Microscopic features: pleurocystidia 21–37.3 μm long 3.8–7.2 width, scattered flask or bowling pin shaped and cheilocystidia 23.2–37.2 μm long 4.1–8.6 μm width, swelling in the center sometimes or shaped like a flask.

Caulocystidia abundant above the annulus produced in dense clusters directly on the stem, bowling pin shaped occasionally cylindrical but with a distinctive head 20.1–47.5 μm long 3.8–9.3 μm width.

Basidia are 4 spored club shaped to cylindrical usually constricted near the center 26.3–37.9×6.6–9.3 μm KOH: spores darken in KOH Taste: Bitter Odor: strong mushroom odor Look alikes: