Phlebopus (R.Heim) Singer

Filed As

Boletinellaceae
Phlebopus

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7860 with M. Mata et al., 8 Jul 99

Location

Costa Rica. Puntarenas. Coto Brus (Canton). Las Mellizas. Zona Protectora Las Tablas. Camino a Portones, cerca del Tajo.

Habitat

Mixed montane forest. Quercus sp. Gregarious. On soil.

Description

Pileus 25-45 mm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, delicately and finely fibrillose scaly (under a lens) otherwise appearing matted subtomentose, irregularly cinnamon brown (6C-D-E6) on disc, dirty pale yellow (4B4) at margin. Flesh yellow, cyanescent, 10-15 mm thick, with mild odor and taste. Hymenophore tubulose, adnate to barely subdecurrent. Tubes shallow (2-4 mm long), greenish yellow (3B-C5), cyanescent; pores concolorous, cyanescent, 1 mm broad. Stipe lateral to eccentric, curved, 4-8 cm long, 10-15 mm broad, either tapering downward or slightly broader below, tomentose to subtomentose, dry, pale greenish yellow (nearly concolorous with hymenophore), developing brown stains in situ and seemingly slowly brown when handled in places; interior solid, pale brown, unchanging; with white basal mycelium. NH4 vapors on pileus greenish blue, orange at point of application; (-) elsewhere.

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in INBio or USJ

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 02072666

Occurrence ID: 085b8187-ff7f-45c1-9acf-48501ce53010

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