Macroscopy – Sporophores isolated on the ground. Cap 4-8 cm diam., rather stocky and irregular, spreading with depressed centre; margin rounded, narrowly exceeding; pileipellis velvety, dark reddish-brown. Stipe 4-5 × 1.5 cm, central, cylindrical, solid; stipitipellis concolorous with the cap, clearly reticulate in the upper half, with a very protruding network in places; mycelium yellow, abundant, clumping the soil. Hymenophore with tubes short (4 mm), decurrent, prolongated by the network, yellow ochraceous; pores fairly small (~1 mm), not very regular, compound, concolorous. Flesh yellow. Odour absent. Taste weak, slightly sweet. Spore print creamy white to yellowish-white.

Microscopy – Spores long ellipsoid, brownish-brown with hyaline content, 7.6-9.1-11.1 × 4.6-5.1-5.7 µm, Q = 1.59-1.79-2.08. Basidia 30-34 × 9 μm, clavate with narrow cylindricaceous base, 4-spores. Lamella edge sterile, sometimes with emerging nodule-like skeletal hyphae. Cheilocystidia abundant, cylindricaceous or lanceolate. Pleurocystidia quite frequent, lanceolate, obtuse, hyaline or more often with yellowish guttules. Clamp connections absent.

Ecology – Ectomycorrhizal, associated with Brachystegia; dense moist forest, miombo.

Notes – Gyrodon miretipes is different from G. xylophilus (Petch.) Heinem. & Rammeloo only by the presence of pleurocystidia with yellow or brown concretions.

It is one of the few bolets consumed in tropical Africa although to date, its consumption has only been reported from Angola.