Taxonomy
Red List Status -
Description
Pileus:convex; 35-40 mms diameter; velutinous; deep purple; margin not appendiculate.
Stipe: cylindrical to clavate; 30 - 50 ×5-8 mm;glabrous; uniformly red orred at apex and yellow below.
Pores: emarginate (depressed about the stipe); oval; 1 per mm; yellow; blueing on bruising.
Flesh:wine red in the stipe, blueing strongly in the cap above the pores.
Spore print: brown
Spores: fusoid;8– 11.5 × 3 – 4 µm; smooth.
Notes: this collection fits Horak’s description of a small pink Bolete with small ovoid spores.
Patricl Leonard 2019