Fruit body: cap up to 15 cm, rounded then expanded, scaly and wooly, in shades of grey-brown to grey-black, blackening when touched, margin is covered with hanging wooly fragments. Tubes are greyish, turning red when touched then becoming black. Pores are wide up to 2mm, angular, same colour as tubes. Stem is up to 18x3 cm, smooth above and fibrous wooly under ring zone, grey, then blackish.

Microscopy: spores globose to widely ellipsoid, with one oily droplet, reticulate, 9—13x8—11 μm, black en masse.

Flesh: soft, greyish, reddish when cut then black, without distinct smell and taste.

Habitat: season summer and autumn, in beech woods (Fagus), very rarely under conifers.

Edibility: edible when young.

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

Photo: Goran Milošević