Scattered in conifer duff under Tsuga, Abies, Picea, and Betula along A.T. across from Fork Ridge trail, GSMNP Pileus: 24-45mm, 11B4, 13E3-4, 3F4, 19D5-6 (green in center), convex to plano-convex, convex in age, shiny metallic, smooth, viscid when wet; margin straight to incurved, TS, concentrically wrinkled when drying; context white, solid, cushiony; odor none, taste starts weakly acrid and builds; cuticle peels ¾; KOH bright orange; SP B Lamellae: cream to white, adnate, thin, breaking easily, between close and subdistant when young and subdistant in age, occasionally forking from base, no lamellulae; guaiac neg, PDAB margin blue Stipe: 41-47 x 7-10mm, white discoloring to cray in age, central, MLR; context white, stuffed, soft; guaiac neg, FeSO4 surface neg and context purple brown, PDAB blue on surface and context (after 30 secs) D/FJ/IKO/NPS Spores: broadly ellipsoid, (7.6-)6.9-6.4-5.9(-5.7) Ã- (5.4-)5.0-4.7-4.4 µm, Q= (1.47-)1.43-1.35-1.28(-1.22), weakly amyloid plage (brown); ornamentation blunt warts with many low connectives creating a reticulum, (0.6-)0.5-0.4 µm Cystidia: abundant, (50-)48-46-43 Ã- (12.7-)11.9-10.6-9.3(-8.5) µm, SV + (less so in cheilocystidia) cylindrical to conical, apex mucronate, filled with contents Pileipellis: composed of two distinct layers (~240 microns), suprapellis poorly gelatinized cutis with protruding elements; dermatocystidia SV+ (brown) with contents, single septate, ends often with median constriction and acuminate apex, otherwise narrowly clavate to cylindrical; subpellis dense ixocutis with long, SV+, aseptate, cylindric dermatocystidia oriented parallel with cutis