Fruit body: cap up to 15 cm, rounded then expanded, velvety, in shades of beige and grey, sometimes with darker hues. Tubes are gold-yellow, then greenish-yellow, unchanging. Pores are small rounded, yellow, with age rusty patches appear, unchanging colour when pressed. Stem is up to 15x6 cm, robust, more or less yellow, surface is granular and without any gloss.

Microscopy: spores subfusiform, 11-15x5-6 μm.

Flesh: hard, whitish to bright yellow, unchanging or slightly turning red when cut, strong smell reminiscent of chlorine, especially at stem base.

Habitat: season summer and autumn on lowland deciduous woods on calcareous terrains. Not common.

Edibility: edible.

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