Local Name
Kombala sok’o (1).

Description
Fruitbody: The fruitbody is 10-30 cm high, 2-5 cm wide, forming a large club swollen at its apex, light yellow to deep ochre, with a purplish-lavender bloom over the stem, dry, smooth, with longitudinal wrinkles on the lower part of the club, never branching. Stem: The stem is 10–22 cm long, 1–3 cm thick, club-shaped, with a basal bulb that is gradually swollen, bald, whitish above the ring, brownish below, bruising and discoloring brown to brownish, with a high, double-edged, moveable ring that features a brownish edge on the underside. Flesh: The flesh is firm then soft and spongy, white, bruising brownish, odor sickly, taste mild to bitter. Spores: The spores are 9–14 X 5–8 µm, elliptical, smooth, white to yellowish.
Habitat: On soils, in leafy forests, on the edges of forests, especially beech. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: Javakheti, Kakheti (2).

Uses
Edibility: Edible when young and fresh (1).

References
1. Nakhutsrishvili, I.G. (2007) Fungi of Georgia. Tbilisi: Buneba Printi.
2. Nakhutsrishvili, I.G., et al. (1986) Flora of Spore-producing Plants of Georgia (Summary). Tbilisi: Metsniereba (Russian).