Public Note:
Attempt to sequence the type gave Austropaxillus nothofagi - clearly an error.
Pileus average size for a bolete ( less than 80 mm diameter ), rounded and convex , distinctly viscous, not hygrophanous , with soft a sticky cuticle, bright yellow , sometimes more yellow - brown, some specimens greyish - yellow or gray-brown in the end, smooth to slightly granular ; margin paler , vaguely yellow citrine. Initially tubes white and pink , finally passing dark pink or pinkish gray (not purple ) , adnexed - indented , pores more or less round , at first compact becoming more spaced . Stipe measuring 60-80 x 4-10 mm , slender, often winding , hard ( consistency contrasting with the cap) , pale, white - gray yellow - gray, slightly fibrillose . Flesh more or less greyish white , typically stuffed, yellow-brown apically; smell and flavor unremarkable .
Cuticle composed of hyphae erect, gelatinised , wide 7-8 um , cells sometimes swollen terminally and measuring 50-60 x 8-10 um . Basidia tetrasporic 25-40 x 8-10 um , narrow base. Spores fusoid sometimes with small depressions , from 13 to 17.5 x 4.5-6.5 um , smooth, yellowish pink . cheilocystidia measuring 40-55 x 5-7 um , lanceolate, rounded or slightly sharp , sometimes a little capitate ; sterile cells, clavate, 25-30 x 6-10 um , in the tubes, including the edge . Caulocystidia small clavate , sometimes sinuate , 15-20 x 6-7 um . Clamped.
The authors considered the possibility that F. lutea, F. violaceipora , Porphyrellus nothofagi and P. viscidus as all colour variants of the same species, and Horak considered them so (prior to the description of F. lutea). Current phylogenetic data indicates a split between a myrtaceous associated species (taken to be represented by F. viscida) and a beech associated species (taken to be F. violaceipora). Pileus colours, and the other factors taken to separate the species appear to be variable and yellowish forms of sequenced F. violaceipora are known. Consequently I consider there to be ample evidence to say F. lutea is a synonym of F. violaceipora.
J.A. Cooper, 2016