Stem: whitish then flushed or spotted with rust-brown.
Gills: straw-coloured, often spotted brown with age and beaded with watery droplets when growing under moist conditions.
Flesh: white to cream, brittle and with foetid-oily smell.
Spore-print: pale cream-colour.
Common in deciduous woods.
R. mairei Singer
Cap: width 30-75 mm. Stem: width 7-15 mm; length 35-70 mm.
Cap: scarlet red but developing creamy areas with age, dry.
Stem and gills: white but with a distinct although faint greenish grey flush, the former fairly firm.
Flesh: white.