Fruit body: cap up to 20 cm, very fleshy, rounded then expanded, smooth, orange to orange-red, sometimes with white remnants of universail veil, margins with short striates.  Gills are crowded, free and yellow. Stem is up to 15x3 cm, yellow, with yellow pendulous ring in upper part. Volva is white, bag-like and elastic.

Microscopy: spores ellipsoid to ovoid, nonamyloid, 9-14x6-10 μm, whitish en masse.

Flesh: hard, whitish to yellowish, mild smell and taste.

Habitat: thermophilic species; season summer and autumn on sunny places under deciduous trees, primarily under oak (Quercus).

Edibility: edible, priced.

Reference: Uzelac, B. (2009). Gljive Srbije i zapadnog Balkana, BGV Logik, Beograd.

Photo: Goran Milošević