Veloboletus limbatus Fechner & Halling

Filed As

Boletaceae
Veloboletus limbatus Fechner & Halling

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 8746 with Mueller, Lebel, Osmundson, 9 Feb 2006

Location

Australia. Queensland. Mareeba Shire. Tablelands. Davies Creek National Park, Davies Creek Road.

Habitat

Dry sclerophyll. Allocasuarina, Eucalyptus. Scattered. On soil.

Description

Pileus 7-9 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, finely appressed squamulose, with squamules brown to reddish brown, overlying a dull red disc, dull yellow to bright yellow at margin, staining blue, with even margin. Flesh pale yellow to pale lemon yellow, 1-2 cm thick, staining blue when exposed, with mild odor and slowly unpleasant to nearly bitter taste. Hymenophore adnexed to depressed around stipe, bright yellow to bright greenish yellow (2A-B7,6), staining blue-green when bruised at first, then pores becoming brown. Stipe 6.5-9.5 cm long, 2-2.7 cm broad, equal to subclavate to clavate with a submarginate bulb clearly defined and tapering to base below marginate rim; surface bright lemon yellow above and heavily pruinose to subfloccose, matted toward base, pale pinkish red with fine appressed brown squamules below marginate rim (as in pileus); interior solid, yellow, staining blue.

Collection Notes

tissue in silica gel

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in BRI AQ0794607

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 1393615

Occurrence ID: 046833e9-80a5-4d35-9f77-55b1fcc258e6

GenBank

MN413635 (tef1)

MN393699 (nr28S)

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