All Determinations:

Boletus L. det. R. E. Halling

Location:

Costa Rica. Guanacaste. Santa Cecilia. Parque Nacional Guanacaste, sector Pitilla (ACG). Alt. 700 m. (2297 ft.)

Collector(s):

R. E. Halling 7734 with Mueller, Huhndorf, Quist, 23 Jun 1997

Description:

Pileus 3-6 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, subtomentose to appressed subtomentose, dark red to red, somewhat rugulose in areas, becoming areolate. Flesh yellow, bluing with exposure, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed to rarely subdecurrent, yellow, bluing with exposure, xerocomoid, up to 9 mm long, with pores red, rarely yellow with some red tones, slightly radially elongate, bluing when bruised. Stipe 3-5 cm long, 4-10 mm broad, equal, strict or curved, dry, coarsely pruinose to subsquamulose to fibrillose, lemon yellow at apex, red to dark red below, yellow at base, bluing with handling, with interior yellow, staining blue. NH4OH: neagtive on all parts. Spores short fusoid to ellipsoid, smooth.

Habitat:

Tropical dry forest. Quercus sp. in mixed forest. Gregarious. On soil.

Other:

Specimen Notes: Duplicate in INBio or USJ

Identifiers:

NY Barcode: 2072695
GUID: 2d0988b1-76e1-49b0-b1e9-7adc36c2f3e6

Map:

Coordinates: (10.9889, -85.4261)

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