Pileus 4-10 cm broad at maturity, subglobose to convex when young, plano-convex to plane, usually with a broad depression on the disc with age, margin decurved, entire, warted striate and tuberculate. Cuticle not easily seperable from the context, cracking up into patches near margin; surface rugged, dry or subviscid; color orchraceous-tawny, yellowish tan to dark brownish yellow on the disc, unchanging color when exposed; context 1-5 mm thick, pale yellow to dull yellow. Smell very strong, unpleasant. Taste very acrid. Gills adnate or adnexed, closed; dull yellow colored, edge of the gill with fine brown spots. Stipe 2-6 × 0.4-0.8 cm, equal cylindrical or slightly fusoid elongated, sometimes tapered towards the base dull yellow, dull brown or cinnamon-brown, with fine dark brown warts; hollow; unchanging color when exposed. Cuticle with numerous septate clavate pileocystidia and scattered free hyphal tips. Cystidia fusoid, or elongated fusoid, about 80-120 × 15-25 μm. Spore print white. spore 7.5-9 × 7-9 μm, subglobose to ovoid, ornamentation composed of prominent warts, sometimes with ridge, warts 2-3 μm high.
Specimens：
Taiwan, Nantou: Hohuanshan, alt. 2500 m, under conifer forest, 10 Aug 2001, R90081004 (TNM); Hohuanshan, alt. 2500 m, under conifer forest, 10 Aug 2001, R90081029 (TNM).
Habitat：
Solitary to scattered under mixed or conifer forests, broadleaf forests, especially under Quercus or Fagus.
Distribution：
Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea.
References：
Imai R. and Hongo T. 1989; Imai, S. 1938; Mao. 2000.
Provided：
E. F. T. Tschen
Note：
Toxic, but a potent agent with anti-tumor activity (Mao, 2000). This species had been described only in Asia, but Singer (1986) considers R. senecis Imai and R. illota Romagnsi both probably conspecific with R. punctipes Sing.
Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Russulales 
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