Local Name
Mits’aq’ara (Ts’ovana) (1).

Description
Cap: The cap is 5–12 cm, at first convex then expanded, more or less deeply depressed, slightly viscid then shiny, glabrous, zoned, especially at the edge, with rather pale, dull yellow and rather rufous buff bands. Gills are subdecurrent, rather close, whitish then cream, often with faint flesh tones. Stem: The stem is 5–10 cm tall, 1–2 cm thick, slightly conical when short, white or pale to brownish from the base. Flesh: The flesh is white, flushing slightly pink when cut then graying. Milk white, slightly or slowly acrid. Spores: The spores are 6.5–8.5 X 5.5–6.5 µm, subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, with low warts.
Habitat: On soils, in leafy forests, especially in oak-forest. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: All regions of Georgia (2).

Uses
Edibility: Edible when marinated (must be boiled first) (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).