Taxon Details: Austroboletus yourkae F. E. Guard, McMull.-Fish., J. Van Wyk, T.Lebel & Halling
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Family:

Boletaceae (Basidiomycota)
Scientific Name:

Austroboletus yourkae F. E. Guard, McMull.-Fish., J. Van Wyk, T.Lebel & Halling
Primary Citation:

Fungal Planet description sheets - 1336; Austroboletus yourkae, sp. nov.
Persoonia 47: 277.
Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.
Type Specimens:

Specimen 1: Isotype -- R. E. Halling
Specimen 2: Paratype -- R. E. Halling
Description:

Description: Pileus 3.5-5 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry to very slightly tacky at first, but not viscid or glutinous, densely tomentose to matted tomentose, amber yellow (4B6,5,4), even at margin (no veil remnants) but with a white barely visible sterile projection in one medium sized basidiome. Flesh white, unchanging, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, pale pink at first, becoming vinaceous pink, barely brownish with bruising. Stipe 3.5-5 cm long, 6-15 mm broad, strict or curved, equal, dry, white, slowly developing some pale brown stains at base with handling, alveolate reticulate, with interior white, unchanging, with white basal mycelium. Spores with distinct perforate ornamentation.

Etymology: Named for the Yourka Bush Heritage Reserve, on which site the species was first found.

Registration number: Mycobank MB839206

Ectomycorrhiza: Corymbia intermedia, Eucalypus resinifera

Distribution: Northern Queensland, Australia