Cap is 17 cm broad, convex, expanding to plano-convex; margin incurved, later decurved to nearly plane. The surface is moist, more or less glabrous when young, becoming irregularly pitted or wrinkled. The colour at first unevenly buff-brown to pale chestnut-brown, overlain initially with a whitish bloom, in age becoming medium-brown to dark-brown, subviscid when moist; context up to 2.0 cm thick white, unchanging, firm in youth, soft at maturity, odour and taste mild.

Stipe :

Stipe 7-13 cm long, 3.0-4.0 cm thick, solid, clavate to ventricose in youth, subclavate to equal at maturity; surface of apex reticulate, whitish, elsewhere glabrous to faintly wrinkled; context of stipe, not bluing, but darkening slightly when cut; partial veil absent.

Solitary to scattered in mixed hardwood/conifer forests; fruiting shortly after the autumn rains.