Filed As:

Boletaceae
Boletus flavoruber Halling & M.Mata

All Determinations:

Boletus flavoruber Halling & M.Mata det. R. E. Halling

Location:

Costa Rica. San José. Dota (Canton). Jardín. ±3.5 km W of Interamerican Highway at Empalme. Alt. 2220 m. (7283 ft.)

Collector(s):

R. E. Halling 7796 with Halling, Petersen, J. L. Mata, Cifuentes, 01 Jul 1998

Description:

Pileus 4-5.5cm broad, dry to tacky, convex to plano-convex, with red fibrillose to subsquamulose scales at first over a yellow ground, eventually pale to dull yellow overall. Flesh light yellow to white, blueing when exposed, with mild odor and taste. Hymenophore tubulose, adnate to shallowly subdecurrent. Tubes yellow, bluing; pores red, this color soon diluted as hymenophore expands, very fine. Stipe 4.5 -6 cm long, 10-15 mm broad, equal to subequal to reminiscently subclavate, dry, subpruinose and finely and obscurely longitudinally ridged, turning blue when handled, red from below apex downward. Interior chrome to cadmium yellow, changing to blue when exposed. With white basal mycelium.

Habitat:

Montane cloud forest. Quercus copeyensis, Q. seemannii. Gregarious. On soil.

Other:

Specimen Notes: Duplicate in USJ

GenBank:

JQ924340 (nrLSU)

Identifiers:

NY Barcode: 817328
GUID: ec9e7acb-d8d2-4bbe-8dbb-cdda934ee5ff

Map:

Coordinates: (9.71444, -83.9744)

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