Taxonomy
Red List Status -
Description
Cap: convex to plano-convex; 50-90 mm diameter; minutely felty, dry; pale fawn; margin entire.
Stipe: clavate; 50 – 100 × 10 – 25 mm; fibrillose with adpressed and overlapping vertical fibres; fawn, with fibres slightly darker than background and having a violaceous tinge.
Pores: adnexed; white with a pink tinge.
Flesh:
Spore print: clay pink.
Spores:
Notes: this Bolete is a typical member of the genus Tylopilus characterised by its clay pink spores.
Patrick Leonard 2019