Pileus: plano-convex with flat to slightly depressed centre; 40 – 140 mm diameter; tawny pinkish orange; not fibrillose, but cracking leaves reticulate pattern.

Stipe: attenuated downwards or almost equal; 85 × 21mm; pale pinkish brown darkening with age; relatively smooth but not very firm, fibrillose structure discernable.

Lamellae: adnate to subdecurrent; yellow brown, cyanescent on bruising, margin dark brown, veined on face and lamellules distinctly wrinkled.

Flesh: near white, pink flush under pileus cuticle, cyanescent adjacent to lamellae; pale or yellow flush in flesh above lamellae.

Spores: subfusiform; 13.5-14 × 4.8 - 5.7µm.

Notes: this Phylloporus has a pinkish orange cap, lemon yellow gills and a pink stipe. This combined with the subfusiorm spores suggests it is close to Corner’s P. bellus. This conclusion is supported by sequencing data.

Patrick Leonard text 2019

Jerry Cooper sequencing 2020