Boletellus ananiceps (Berk.) Singer

Filed As

Boletaceae
Boletellus ananiceps (Berk.) Singer

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 9893 with N. Fechner, 13 Feb 2014

Location

Australia. Queensland. Cape Hillsborough National Park, Twin Beach Lookout Track (Andrews Point track).

Habitat

Dry sclerophyll. Eucalyptus sp., Acacia sp. Scattered to gregarious. On soil.

Description

Pileus 3.5-8 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, with flattened to suberect fine pale ochraceous scales, becoming coarser and typically flattened with age, surrounded and subtended by pinkish colored tissue, with pinkish color often disappearing with age and exposure, with sterile velar flap at margin covering hymenophore when young, splitting and becoming appendiculate with maturity. Flesh yellow, quickly cyanescent and obscuring true color, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, yellow when young, greenish yellow (4D6) with age, pores concolorous becoming dull red with age, quickly cyanescent. Stipe 9.5-17 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, equal or rarely with a slightly bulbous base, dry, appressed fibrillose to matted fibrillose, sometimes pale red at apex, otherwise white with dull tan overtones, staining orangish brown to brown, white at base, with interior white and staining brownish orange especially downward and in base, sometimes with a hint of yellow and cyanescence in apex, very rarely with a hint of yellow and cyanescence in base.

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in BRI

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 2072400

Occurrence ID: bd4cda93-3ea9-43ca-88b6-94d13fe51d89

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