growing beside trail in duff layer atop dense, clay soils. other familiar conifer associates nearby (Amanita muscaria, Coltricia, Suillus salmonicolor, etc.). Flesh ready bruising blue. Psychoactivity not tested. Material to be deposited in the Universidad de Antioquia Herbarium in the near future.
Habitat: highland tropical forest with introduced Pinus (patula?) Cupressus (lusitanica?) and Eucalpytus, ~2200m-2600m.
Substrate: pine needles
Collectors: D. Newman & D. Campbell