Leccinum monticola Halling & G.M.Muell.

Filed As

Boletaceae
Leccinum cf. monticola Halling & G.M.Muell.

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7411, 21 Oct 1994

Location

Costa Rica. San José. Dota (Canton). ±500 km S of Interamerican Highway on road to San Gerardo.

Habitat

Quercus, costaricensis, Comarostaphylis arbutoides, Vaccinium consanguineum. gregarious. soil.

Description

Pileus 4-9.5 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry to moist to subviscid when wet, heavily matted tomentose to fibrillose to finely squamulose, brownish orange to light brown (6C-D8) at first, becoming brown to agate brown (6-7E8) with age, with sterile flaps at the margin. Flesh white, changing directly to fuscous, up to 1.5 cm thick, with mild odor and taste (in fact it's edible!). Tubes depressed around stipe, white at first, light brown (5C-D6-5) with age, staining brown with injury,pores white at first, concolorous with tubes with age, staining likewise. Stipe 6.5-12 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, clavate to equal, dry, scabrous, with scabers white when young, becoming caramel colored then finally black with age, sometimes witherratic blue green stains at base, with interior solid, staining as in pileus, with occasional blue green stains in base.

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 225878

Occurrence ID: 780ac8b7-60a6-4784-a4ea-80fbc1c58da9

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