Boletus luridus Schaeff.:Fr.

Filed As

Boletaceae
Boletus luridus Schaeff.:Fr.

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 8612 with Osmundson, 09 Jun 2004

Location

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

Habitat

oak forest. Quercus copeyensis, Q. rapurahuensis. . soil.

Description

Pileus 7 cm broad, plano-convex, dry, matted subtomentose, somalis brown (7E6,5), with even margin. Flesh light yellow, rapidly bluing on exposure, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, yellow, changing to blue when exposed; pores orange rapidly bluign when bruised. Stipe 10 x 2 cm, equal, curved and pinched at the base, dry, reticulate 2/3 length; apex orangish yellow, becoming deep red toward base, with dull yellow tomentum at base, brusing blue; reticulum dull red; interior yellow, changing to blue when exposed.

Notes (shown on label)

Annotated as Suillellus amygdalinus by G. Wu, but that species lacks a reticulum and occurs with Arctostaphylos and Arbutus. Wu extracted and sequenced DNA, July 2015.

Specimen Notes

Determined as Suillus amygdalinus by Farid et al (2021)

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 00815464

Occurrence ID: ed05e299-406e-42f7-a640-93502dcd83e3

GenBank

KT990848 (tef1)

KT990659 (28s)

KT990997 (RPB1)

KT990484 (RPB2)

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