Boletus laetissimus Hongo

Filed As

Boletaceae
Boletus laetissimus Hongo

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 8775 with Osmundson, 22 Feb 2006

Location

Australia. Queensland. Atherton Shire. Tablelands. Mt. Baldy road, approx 8 km from Atherton-Herberton Highway.

Habitat

Dry sclerophyll. Allocasuarina, Eucalyptus. Scattered. On soil.

Description

Pileus 5-8 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, very finely matted (lens), deep orange (6A-B-C8), soon fading to pale brownish (6D6 to 6C-D5,4). Flesh pale orange (5A6), unchanging, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnate to adnexed, golden yellow (5B6), unchanging, with pores concolorous and stuffed when young, becoming slightly darker near 5C6) with age. Stipe 5-6 cm long, 1.5-2.3 cm broad, equal and strict or curved and tapering below mid-portion, dry, deep orange (5A8) with some hints and patches of yellow, even or with a short apical reticulum when young, otherwise subfibrillose streaked or ridged, dull grayish orange at base, with interior solid, nearest pale orange yellow (no match).

Collection Notes

tissue in silica gel

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in BRI

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 1393642

Occurrence ID: febace80-952c-4029-9e08-a7168aa8842d

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