Local name: Chenpa Shamong

Edibility: Edible

Habitat: Terrestrial and solitary or in groups of few.

Description: Cap: 3-16 cm diameter, circular to slightly convex to irregular, dry surface to finely velvety, sometimes scaly, and blue to bluish-grey becoming greyish-brown to dull orange with age. Hymenophore: 2-3 pores per mm, angular, pale blue to grey, descending the stem, greyish-brown to orange with age. Stem: 5-7 cm long and up to 2.5 cm wide, sub-bulbous, surface smooth to rough, blue-brown to greyish falling. Flesh: White. Spore Print: White.

Comments: A. caeruleoporus is reported as an edible species in Bhutan. The changes of their bright fall colours to pale brown are important features to recognize this species in the field. There is another species, A. fletti, blue to brownish grey but the pores of this species are white, while A. caeruleoporus has blue to bluish-grey pores.