Filed As:

Boletaceae
Austroboletus niveus (G.Stev.) Wolfe
All Determinations:

Austroboletus niveus (G.Stev.) Wolfe det. R. E. Halling

Austroboletus eburneus Watling & N.M.Greg. det. R. E. Halling

Location:

Australia. Queensland. Great Sandy National Park, Fraser Island, walking track S of Central Station. Alt. 155 m. (509 ft.)
Collector(s):

R. E. Halling 9136 with N. Fechner, K Querengasser, 03 Jun 2009
Description:

Pileus 4-8 cm broad, convex to plano-convex to plane, moist and sticky but not glutinous or with slime, with suede-like texture at first, this soon matted and disappearing, white to a pale yellow (4A3) at first, soon with more yellow and some pale pinkish tints (7A-B5,4), with sterile appendiculate marginal tissue when young. Flesh white, unchanging, with mild odor and bitter taste. Tubes adnexed, whitish at first, soon porphyry pinkish, bruising pale brownish. Stipe 5-12 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, strict of curved, equal to slightly broader below, often tapered at base, white and lacunose reticulate at first, soon with yellow or orangish yellow stains, moist and sticky with some gluten here and there, with interior white, unchanging, solid to pithy becoming hollow.
Habitat:

Sclerophyll. Eucalyptus, Syncarpia, Leptospermum. Gregarious. In sand.
Other:

Specimen Notes: duplicate in BRI
Identifiers:

NY Barcode: 1115375
GUID: d3f78472-d1bc-4343-9c20-4fef7949924b
Map:

Georeferencing Method: GPS
Coordinates: (-25.48, 153.058)

Distribution:

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