Leccinum talamancae Halling, L.D.Gómez & Lannoy

Filed As

Boletaceae
Leccinum talamancae Halling, L.D.Gómez & Lannoy ( isotype )

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7239 with T.J. Baroni, 07 Jun 1994

Location

Costa Rica. San José. La Chonta. S of Interamerican Highway toward Cerro Chonta.

Habitat

Montane cloud forest. Quercus copeyensis. Gregarious. On soil.

Description

Pileus 4-8 cm broad, dry to moist, convex to plano-convex, dry to moist, even at first, soon rugulose then becoming rugulose and areolate, gray brown (6F6), becoming more caramel brown (6E6) with age, lacking a sterile margin. Flesh white, changing to pinkish in the cap, blue green in the stipe base, with mild odor and taste. Tubes depressed to deeply depressed around the stipe, up to 1.5 cm long, white at first, then a light brown (6D5), staining darker brown with exposure; pores up to 1 mm broad, concolorous with tubes, staining a dark reddish brown with bruising. Stipe 5-14 cm long, 1-2 cm broad, ±equal to subclavate, dry, scabrous, with gray scabers at first, these becoming black with age and more dense toward the base, finely subpruinose ridged above; interior white, solid, changing to pinkish above and blue green in the base. NH4 pale brown on pileus, bright grass green on blue stains in stipe context.

Specimen Notes

Holotype in USJ

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 460926

Occurrence ID: 38ce1e91-e2a7-406d-8571-9bb82fd1e46a

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