Leccinum talamancae Halling, L.D.Gómez & Lannoy

Filed As

Boletaceae
Leccinum talamancae Halling, L.D.Gómez & Lannoy

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7296 with Franco, Umaña, M. Mata, 19 Jun 1994

Location

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

Habitat

Quercus copeyensis, Q. seemanii. Gregarious. Soil.

Description

Pileus 2-7 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, heavily rugulose wrinkled to pitted to finely rugulose areolate, becoming deeply areolate cracked with age and/or in dry weather, dry to moist, without sterile projecting margin, 6F6-7E6-6E6, sometimes bruising to a very dark brown to nearly black. Flesh white, changing to pink then fuscous, often remaining pink, up to 1 cm thick, with mild odor and taste. Tubes depressed to deeply depressed around the stipe, nearest (4A4) when young, becoming near (5C6-5-4) with age, staining pinkish brown when exposed; pores concolorous throughout development, staining likewise, occasionally reaching 1 mm broad. Stipe 6-10 cm long, 10-15 mm broad, clavate, dry, scabrous ridged when young with gray scabers on a white to pale gray ground, more heavily scabrous with fine black scabers in age on a white ground, with white mycelium at base assuming a pale blue tint when picked; interior white, blue green at base and sometimes upward, otherwise, pink at first.

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 460922

Occurrence ID: 13a37b17-1864-4827-bd3c-8ef0ad82aaa2

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