 The pores bruise carmine or brownish, often developing rusty-brown spots with age, and number about one or two per millimetre.The tubes are long relative to the size of the cap, measuring deep in the middle part of the cap.The stalk is initially bulbous before stretching and thinning in the upper part; the lower part of the stalk remains swollen, sometimes shrinking at the base where it attaches to the substrate.