COLLECTIONS EXAMINED: Under (1) Quercus robur, Canterbury, Christchurch, Hagley Park, Mar 1966. R.F.R. McN., 25084; Otago, Palmerston, Pleasant Valley, Mar 1966, R.F.R. McN., 25086; (2) Q. robur and Fagus sylvatica, Hagley Park, Mar 1966, R.F.R. McN., 25083.

PILEUS: convex when young, becoming plano-convex to applanate at maturity, 4-8 cm diam., dry, subglabrous, felted or subtomentose, coffee brown, chestnut brown, yellow-brown or greyish fawn, irregularly creviced at maturity, crevices pink to red; cuticle a trichodermium composed of erect, septate, often roughened hyphae 5.5-10 µm diam., with pallid brown contents; margin entire, HYMENOPHORE: tubes to 10mm long, excavated around apex of stipe, sulphur yellow at first, becoming greenish yellow at maturity; pores concolorous with tubes, irregularly angular, 0.75-1.5 mm diam.; bluing where damaged. STIPE: 3.5-8 cm long, equal or more often tapering basally, 7-18 mm diam., solid, fibrous, dry, slightly longitudinally grooved, pallid yellow with scarlet or crimson streaks particularly at base; flesh red basally; annulus absent. SPORES: spore print olive brown (Orange-Citrine); spores melleous, subfusiform, 11.7-14.5-(17.2) X 4.1-5.4 µm, smooth. HYMENIUM: basidia hyaline, clavate, 34-9 X 9.2-13 µm, 4-spored; cystidia abundant, scattered, hyaline to pallid melleous, thin-walled, ventricose-rostrate to narrowly lageniform, 45-70 X 8-10.5 µm. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: bilateral, of the Phylloporus subtype; clamp connections absent. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: white to pallid yellow, pink to reddish immediately beneath cuticle, rapidly bluing on exposure to air. TASTE: mild. SMELL: not distinctive.

HABITAT : Gregarious under introduced broadleaved trees.

ILLUSTRATIONS: Wakefield and Dennis, Common British Fungi pi. 88, fig. 2.1950.