Tylopilus bulbosus Halling & G.M.Muell.

Filed As

Boletaceae
Tylopilus bulbosus Halling & G.M.Muell.

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7699 with Felsch, 06 Jun 1997

Location

Costa Rica. Cartago. El Guarco (Canton). Estrella ±5 km E of km 31 of Interamerican Highway, near town of Estrella.

Habitat

Quercus oocarpa & Quercus sp. Gregarious. Soil.

Description

Pileus 6.5-13 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, matted subtomentose to subvelutinous, becoming finely and minutely areolate in places with age, dark brownish purple (14F4) when young, becoming dark ruby (12F6-5-4) with age, eventually violet brown (11E-F4), with an incurved to slightly beveled margin when young. Flesh up to 3 cm thick, white, slowly and erratically changing to pinkish to pinkish brown when exposed, with mild odor and slightly bitter taste. Tubes depressed around stipe, grayish orange (5B4-3) when young, (9B3) with age, bruising brownish; pores dull rosy pink when very young, soon concolorous with tubes, staining as tubes. Stipe 8.5-15 cm long, strict or curved, subbulbous to exceedingly clavate, dry, white at base, concolorous with pileus above, subpruinose below reticulate apex (upper 3 cm or less), becoming more orange brown (7D8) at apex with age, with white interior, staining as in pileus, with dark olive brown stains at extreme base.

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 560927

Occurrence ID: b60592eb-01f4-45ff-abe4-bde8908944a7

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