Boletus L.

  • Filed As

    Boletaceae
    Boletus

  • Collector(s)

    R. E. Halling 7734 with Mueller, Huhndorf, Quist, 23 Jun 1997

  • Location

    Costa Rica. Guanacaste. Santa Cecilia. Parque Nacional Guanacaste, sector Pitilla (ACG).

  • Habitat

    Tropical dry forest. Quercus sp. in mixed forest. Gregarious. On soil.

  • Description

    Pileus 3-6 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, subtomentose to appressed subtomentose, dark red to red, somewhat rugulose in areas, becoming areolate. Flesh yellow, bluing with exposure, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed to rarely subdecurrent, yellow, bluing with exposure, xerocomoid, up to 9 mm long, with pores red, rarely yellow with some red tones, slightly radially elongate, bluing when bruised. Stipe 3-5 cm long, 4-10 mm broad, equal, strict or curved, dry, coarsely pruinose to subsquamulose to fibrillose, lemon yellow at apex, red to dark red below, yellow at base, bluing with handling, with interior yellow, staining blue. NH4OH: neagtive on all parts. Spores short fusoid to ellipsoid, smooth.

  • Specimen Notes

    Duplicate in INBio or USJ

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 2072695

    Occurrence ID: 2d0988b1-76e1-49b0-b1e9-7adc36c2f3e6

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  • Kingdom

    Fungi

  • Division

    Basidiomycota

  • Family

    Boletaceae

  • All Determinations

    Boletus L. det R. E. Halling

  • Region

    Central America

  • Country

    Costa Rica

  • State/Province

    Guanacaste

  • Locality

    Santa Cecilia. Parque Nacional Guanacaste, sector Pitilla (ACG).

  • Elevation

    Alt. 700 m. (2297 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    10.9889, -85.4261

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