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Family:

Boletaceae (Basidiomycota)

Primary Citation:

V. Descriptions of new species of fungi
Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1: 60. 1873

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Protologue: Pileus soft, viscid when moist, smooth, pale alutaceous; tubes plane, attached to or sometimes slightly depressed around the stem, small, subangular, pale yellow, slightly changing color when wounded; stem subequal, smooth, solid, pallis; spores .00045' × .00022'. Plant 2'–5' high, pileus 2'–4' broad, stem 4"–6" thick. Ground in woods. North Greenbush. August.

Typification: Halling (1983. Mycologia 75: 83.) lectotypified Frost's Boletus pallidus published in 1874, with a specimen (no. 3192 in VT). However, see Commentary (below).

Commentary: According to E. Both (1993. North American Boletes, A Compendium, p. 219), "Frost sent a manuscript description of his species to Peck, who published "Boletus pallidus Frost" exactly one year before Frost published "Boletus pallidus n. sp." Peck's description is based on a collection he made at North Greenbush in July 1872. This collection is preserved at Albany (NYS!) and consists of five well-preserved specimens that are clearly B. pallidus in the sense of Frost (1874) and in the sense of all modern authors."