Filed As:

Boletaceae
Tylopilus balloui (Peck) Singer s.l.
All Determinations:

Tylopilus balloui (Peck) Singer det. R. E. Halling

Location:

Australia. Queensland. Great Sandy National Park, Fraser Island, road from Central Station to Eurong. Alt. 75 m. (246 ft.)
Collector(s):

R. E. Halling 9053 with N. Fechner, A. M. Young, 11 Feb 2009
Description:

Pileus 2-5 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, bright bittersweet orange, finely matted to subtomentose. Flesh white to yellowish white, sometimes with an orange zone under pileus surface, with pleasant odor and mild taste. Tubes adnate or barely depressed, white at first, then with a pale pinkish tint, favoloid radially elongate, and with multiple levels of cross walls, bruising brown. Stipe 2-6 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, subclavate and tapering below to an obvious point, matted subpruinose, white or with orange and yellow, bruising pale brown from handling, with interior white, slightly marbled, solid, pale pinkish avellaneous with exposure, white at base. Spores oblong-ellipsoid, slightly subreniform in profile. Hymenial cystidia (pseudocystidia) present.
Habitat:

Wet sclerophyll. Eucalyptus, Syncarpia, Lophostemon. Gregarious to subcespitose. On sand.
Other:

Specimen Notes: Duplicate in BRI
Identifiers:

NY Barcode: 1193915
GUID: a9a47330-bee0-450f-ad9a-222f6f714ab0
Map:

Georeferencing Method: GPS
Coordinates: (-25.485, 153.088)

Distribution:

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