Field Characteristics:

#181

-Growing gregariously (locally abundant) in narrow grassland surrounded by mixed oak/hickory woodland. -Nearby Trees: Black Oak, Northern Red Oak, and distant Bur Oak.

-Cap bald and wrinkled. -Stipe adorned with orangish-brown scabers that darken when handed and slightly wavy on mature specimens. -Inner flesh slowly turning red when cut.

-Smell: not distinctive. -Taste: slightly acidic to not distinctive. -KOH: dark orange on tube layer, orange on stipe and mustard orange on pileipellis. -Ammonia: flashing yellow on stipe and hymenium and slightly darkening pileipellis.