Hypodendron densely cespidose at base of stump, 2500 m Pileus hemispheric to convex, margins inrolled, fibrillose scaly up to 13 cm wide, ochraceous orange blackening slightly where bruised; flesh spongy fleshy thick apricot yellow to light cadmium becoming dark brown slowly after wounding; gills adnate, decurrent by a line to ring; narrow, 8-9 mm, close yellow, edges stained ochraceous orange; stipe fleshy fibrous. 18cm x 4 cm concolor with flesh, annulus reduced to thick scales; whole outer surface of stipe squarrose scaly, ochraceous orange to ochraceous tawny Specimen examined Costa Rica: San Jose, Rancho Redondo m, Dodge & Thomas 5253