Tylopilus bulbosus Halling & G.M.Muell.

Filed As

Boletaceae
Tylopilus bulbosus Halling & G.M.Muell. ( paratype )

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7312 with Franco, Umaña, M. Mata, 20 Jun 1994

Location

Costa Rica. San José. Dota (Canton). San Gerardo. ±5 km SW of Cerro de la Muerte, Albergue de Montaña, Savegre.

Habitat

Montane cloud forest. Quercus copeyensis, Q. seemannii. Gregarious. On soil.

Description

Pileus 3-10 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, subtomentose to matted subtomentose, dark violet brown (11F7-6-5 series), paler with age but still with some of those violet tints. Flesh is white, gets a pinkish brown tint, with pungent odor, and mild taste. Tubes adnate to depressed around stipe, white when young, pinkish flesh tinted with age staining light brown when exposed; pores grayish red (11D5-4) when young, becoming concolorous with tubes, and staining likewise <1/mm. Stipe 7-14 cm long, 10-15 mm broad, clavate, dry, strict or curved, reticulate at the apex, ±concolorous with pileus or sometimes with sordid yellow overlaying the purple brown tones at apex with age, frequently with olive brown colors at base of stipe with age and with handling, otherwise white at base; interior white solid, changing as in pileus.

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in USJ

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 560928

Occurrence ID: 8b8d2278-2cfe-4e71-87a5-707064f3fe9b

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