Chalciporus chontae Halling & M.Mata

Filed As

Boletaceae
Chalciporus chontae Halling & M.Mata ( isotype )

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 8175 with B. Buyck, R. Aldana-Gomez, 11 Jun 2001

Location

Costa Rica. San José. Dota (Canton). La Chonta: S of Interamerican Highway toward Laguna/Cerro Chonta.

Habitat

Montane forest. Quercus copeyensis, Q. rapurahuensis. Cespitose. On soil, humus.

Description

Pileus 1-4 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, tacky to subviscid, sulphur yellow to lemon yellow when young, developing some pale brown tones in places with age, matted tomentose to matted subtomentose. Flesh pale brown pink, unchanging, with pungent non-idiosyncratic odor, and mild taste. Hymenophore coarsely tubulose, decurrent, brownish pink to pinkish brown (typical Chalciporus-color), not changing when exposed; pores concolorous, unchanging, radially oriented. Stipe 1.5-4.5 cm long, 3-10 mm broad, terete to compressed, equal or usually curved, dry, bright lemon yellow, pinkish brown above, subpruinose to finely subscabrous above, appressed fibrillose below, with bright yellow basal mycelium, with interior solid, unchanging, bright yellow. NH4 (-) but brown on interior stipe flesh. Only one I know with these colors is C. amarellus from Europe.

Specimen Notes

Holotype in USJ

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 00796118

Occurrence ID: c0785a36-f41a-4e08-bc68-c16826987661

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