Taxon Details: Austroboletus eburneus Watling & N.M.Greg.
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Family:

Boletaceae (Basidiomycota)
Scientific Name:

Austroboletus eburneus Watling & N.M.Greg.
Primary Citation:

Observations on the boletes of the Cooloola Sandmass, Queensland and notes on their distribution in Australia.
Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 97: 101. 1986
Description:

Diagnosis: Pileus white to ivory white, becoming a pale yellow, sometimes with pale pinkish streaks, with a suede-like texture, sticky but not truly viscid, but can become glutinous with age, with a sterile projecting margin when young. Flesh white, unchanging with a VERY BITTER taste. Tubes whitish at first, becoming vinaceous pink. Stipe coarsely alveolate-reticulate, moist to subviscid, white developing yellowish stains toward base with age.

Registration number: MB 129956

Commentary: Preliminary molecular phylogenetics infers this taxon is the same as Austroboletus niveus described first from New Zeland.