Boletellus deceptivus Halling & Fechner

Filed As

Boletaceae
Boletellus deceptivus Halling & Fechner ( paratype )

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 9785 with N. Fechner, 14 Feb 2013

Location

Australia. Queensland. Main Range National Park, Queen Mary Falls.

Habitat

Dry sclerophyll. Eucalyptus sp. . On soil.

Description

Pileus 4-6 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, finely erect squamulose at first, becoming repent, grayish red to ruddy red to pinkish red (9,10B-C6,5) soon becoming dull ochraceous tan, but retaining the reddish pigment between the scales and/or at the base of the scales, sometimes with pale yellow showing between the scales, with sterile appendiculate remnants at margin. Flesh yellow, quickly cyanescent, with yellow and cyanescence present into upper 1/4-1/3 of stipe, white below to base with a slower orangish brown oxidation, rarely with some immediate cyanescence in base, often basal cyanescence disappearing with orange brown prevailing. Tubes adnexed to deeply adnexed, bright yellow at first, becoming dull sordid yellow to greenish yellow, with pores bright yellow at first, becoming dull reddish brown with age, quickly cyanescent throughout development. Stipe 6-9 cm long, 8-12 mm broad, strict or curved, equal and slightly enlarged at base, dry, red at apex, or rarely with some bright yellow, white to tan to dull ivory (4B3) with age, tomentose to appressed subtomentose above, appressed fibrillose to fibrillose striate below, white at base.

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in BRI

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 1393542

Occurrence ID: c7bd468c-676d-46f4-90df-cf7ae2d4e34f

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