Key Identification Features
- Its cap is golden to olive-yellow, convex, 3–7 cm in diameter, hygrophanous, and usually has a grooved edge.
- leoninus, however Species Fungorum recognizes the two as distinct species.
- The cap sometimes has a shallow umbo, but this feature is not consistently present.
- Pleurocystidia (cystidia on the gill face) are fusoid-ventricose (distinctly enlarged in the middle and tapered toward both ends), sometimes with an elongated neck.
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