Filed As:

Boletaceae
Gyroporus castaneus (Bull.:Fr.) Quél.

All Determinations:

Gyroporus castaneus (Bull.:Fr.) Quél. det. R. E. Halling

Location:

Costa Rica. Guanacaste. Near Liberia, Area Conservacion Guanacaste, 15 km S of Liberia, 17 km E of Interamerican Highway, Estacíon "La Virgen", sendero El Cañal. Alt. 450 m. (1476 ft.)

Collector(s):

R. E. Halling 7761 with G. Mueller, S. Huhndorf, D. Quist, D. Garcia

Description:

Pileus 4-7 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, tomentose, becoming finely areolate toward margin with age chestnut brown to bright cinnamon brown. Flesh white, unchanging, up to 1 cm thick, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, white at first then yellow, unchanging, with concolorous pores up to 1 mm broad. Stipe 2-5 cm broad, 4-10 mm broad, ±equal to slightly broader below, dry, brittle, concolorous with pileus, subpruinose, with white interior soon hollow, with white mycelium at base.

Habitat:

Submontane forest. Quercus oleoides. Gregarious. On soil.

Other:

Specimen Notes: Duplicate in USJ. (10 mg hymenophore were removed for DNA isolation Dra. Maria P. Martín RSB CSIC Madrid 7th May 2002, Sample taken for DNA Manfred Binder CUW 10/17/05). Also sequenced by N. Davoodian.

GenBank:

MF818162 (atp6)

Identifiers:

NY Barcode: 181465
GUID: 2244bbb6-1528-441a-8e21-e8494b8100a9

Map:

Coordinates: (10.6631, -85.2972)

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