Strobilomyces Berk.

Filed As

Boletaceae
Strobilomyces

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 9985 with T. Lebel, S. McMullan-Fischer, G. Evans, 03 Feb 2015

Location

Australia. Queensland. Mareeba Shire. Davies Creek National Park, Davies Creek Road, approx 12 km from Kennedy Hwy.

Habitat

Dry sclerophyll. Allocasuarina. Gregarious. On soil.

Description

Pileus 2.5-10 cm broad, hemispheric to convex to plano-convex, dry, matted felt-like to matted sublanose at first becoming appressed squamulose then with flattened plaque-like zones, a clay color to pale cinnamon brown (5D5 - 6D5), becoming dark brown to black when forming the plaque-like zones, sometimes with sterile appendiculate marginal veil remnants. Flesh white slowly and faintly with some orangish red (very fresh and young) before becoming black when exposed. Tubes adnexed, white at first, staining orangish red (very fresh and young) becoming black, then gray to dark gray to brown then black. Stipe 4-7 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, equal to narrowing downward, fibrous, dry, lanose and subreticulate, pale gray becoming orangish red (very fresh and young) then black, with interior whitish to pale gray, orangish red then black, with basal mycelium obscured by substrate.

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 02072456

Occurrence ID: 1eb4717b-5f43-45c0-8220-c6917627f689

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