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Fruitbody 6 cm tall, 4 cm across. Mid branches salmon-orange, branch tips and bases yellowish. Stipe context weakly amyloid. Odor indistinct. Growing under conifers. Spores roughened, narrowly ellipsoid, 9.6 - 11.3 x 3.4 - 4.6 um.

Spore deposit grayish. Cap turns red with 3% KOH. Flesh turns pink with 3% KOH. Stipe base turns brownish red with 3 % KOH. Cap, stipe and flesh turn bluish black in Lugol’s solution. Spores 21 x 6 µm, smooth, subfusiform. Flesh is very firm, dense, rubbery to almost corky. Gills broadly attached, thick, wrinkled, enveloped in folds of flesh that become exposed as the cap expands and matures. Growing under Incense Cedar and 3 needle pines. Black oak close by.