Ionosporus australis O. Khmelnitsky & Halling

Filed As

Boletaceae
Ionosporus australis O. Khmelnitsky & Halling

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 9784 with N. Fechner, 13 Feb 2013

Location

Australia. Queensland. Springbrook National Park, tracks near Tallanbana Picnic Area.

Habitat

Sclerophyll. Eucalyptus, Allocasuarina. Gregarious to scattered. On soil.

Description

Pileus 2-8 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, subtomentose to matted then finely areolate with age, black to gray becoming brown to cocoa brown (6E6). Flesh white, slowly dull pinkish tan with exposure, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, white when young, light grayish yellow (4B4) then darker grayish yellow (4C4), slowly staining dingy reddish with bruising, with pores likewise, deep reddish bluish with NH4OH. Stipe 4-7 cm long, 5-10 mm broad, equal to subclavate and then tapered at base, dry, black, reticulate nearly to base, dark grayish to brownish near base, white at base, with interior white, slowly pale to dull pinkish tan. Spore print reddish brown. Spores violet bluish in KOH. NB: One basidiome with finely scissurate scabrous stipe, otherwise similar to those with reticulate stipe. This is the source for the rpb2 sequence in GenBank (MH712036).

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in BRI, BR

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 1393541

Occurrence ID: 9671e68d-84d0-490d-9b54-ddd5dfc72634

GenBank

MH712036 (RPB2)

MK248713 (ITS)

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