Boletus flavoruber Halling & M.Mata

  • Filed As

    Boletaceae
    Boletus flavoruber Halling & M.Mata

  • Collector(s)

    R. E. Halling 7796 with Halling, Petersen, J. L. Mata, Cifuentes, 01 Jul 1998

  • Location

    Costa Rica. San José. Dota (Canton). Jardín. ±3.5 km W of Interamerican Highway at Empalme.

  • Habitat

    Montane cloud forest. Quercus copeyensis, Q. seemannii. Gregarious. On soil.

  • Description

    Pileus 4-5.5cm broad, dry to tacky, convex to plano-convex, with red fibrillose to subsquamulose scales at first over a yellow ground, eventually pale to dull yellow overall. Flesh light yellow to white, blueing when exposed, with mild odor and taste. Hymenophore tubulose, adnate to shallowly subdecurrent. Tubes yellow, bluing; pores red, this color soon diluted as hymenophore expands, very fine. Stipe 4.5 -6 cm long, 10-15 mm broad, equal to subequal to reminiscently subclavate, dry, subpruinose and finely and obscurely longitudinally ridged, turning blue when handled, red from below apex downward. Interior chrome to cadmium yellow, changing to blue when exposed. With white basal mycelium.

  • Specimen Notes

    Duplicate in USJ

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 817328

    Occurrence ID: ec9e7acb-d8d2-4bbe-8dbb-cdda934ee5ff

  • GenBank

    JQ924340 (nrLSU)

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  • Region

    Central America

  • Country

    Costa Rica

  • State/Province

    San José

  • County/Municipio

    Dota (Canton)

  • City/Township

    Jardín

  • Locality

    ±3.5 km W of Interamerican Highway at Empalme

  • Elevation

    Alt. 2220 m. (7283 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    9.71444, -83.9744

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