The cap is thin, hemispherical in young mushrooms, then opens to flattened and slightly depressed, up to 4-7 (10) cm in diameter. The edge is dull, ribbed. The cuticle (peel) is separated over most of the radius, dry (slightly sticky in young mushrooms), wine-brown and violet tones predominate in color, there is a ring-shaped zone with the darkest color.
The plates adhered to the peduncle, medium-frequent, ocher.
Leg 4-8 × 1-2 cm, tapering downward, fragile, quickly becomes hollow, white, soon darkens to yellowish and brownish.
The pulp is brittle, white or leg-colored, without a noticeable taste, at the base of the leg with a smell resembling iodoform .
The spore imprint is rather intensely yellow. Spores 7–9 × 6–8 μm, covered with warts, sometimes partially connected by scars. Four-spore basidia , 35-50 × 10-13 microns. Cystides 50–65 × 9–12.5 μm, spiky, colorless upon contact with sulfovaniline .
Edible mushroom .
It forms mycorrhiza with deciduous and coniferous species - oak and spruce . Appears in late summer - early fall in groups, occasionally.
Widely distributed in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
