Tylopilus bulbosus Halling & G.M.Muell.

Filed As

Boletaceae
Tylopilus bulbosus Halling & G.M.Muell.

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7393 with M. Mata, L. Umaña, G. Mueller, B. Strack, 19 Oct 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. Scattered. On soil.

Description

Pileus 6-10 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dark brown (7F8), occasionally becoming maculose spotted, often with dull reddish grayish brown (8C-D3) (otherwise referred to previously as lilac or purple or perhaps purplish gray, CHECK RIDGWAY comparison of the Methuen notation), occassionally pale gray where not esposed to light, matted subtomentose, becoming finely areolate cracked in some when drying out with exposure, with beveled margin and remaining so for some time. Flesh white, up to 2.5 cm thick, with pungent, non-idiosyncratic odor but sometimes styptic taste. Tubes depressed around stipe, white becoming pinkish flesh color, up to 1 cm deep, with pores white at first, becoming pinkish flesh color with age, bruising brown, <1 mm broad. Stipe 6-17 cm long, 1.5-2 cm broad, clavate to broadly clavate, strict or curved, dry, pallid at first at apex, then reddish brown colors, reddish brown to dark brown to dull reddish grayish brown below, reticulate at apex only, pruinose below to base, white at base to very rarely butter yellow (4A5) slightly above base, with interior white to sordid yellow to yellowish olive.

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in USJ

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 560935

Occurrence ID: ba623e81-0a99-475c-90da-c35cd22f49db

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