Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Boletaceae
Genus:
Buchwaldoboletus
Species:
Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus
Binomial name
Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus
(Barla) Watling & T. H. Li, 2004
Synonyms

Pulveroboletus sphaerocephalus

Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to Europe, North America and Southwest Australia.

Taxonomy and naming

Originally described by Jean-Baptiste Barla as Boletus sphaerocephalus in 1859, it was given its current name by Roy Watling & Tai Hui Li in 2004. [1]

Description

The cap is convex, glabrous, silky and tomentose, viscid when wet. Its color is yellow to yellow-fulvus. The pores are small, tubes short, adnate ventricose, and context yellow, bluing when bruised. The stipe is fleshy, ventricose, and there is a yellow mycelium at the stipe base.[2]

Spores are ovoid, pale ochraceous and measure 5.5–7.2 by 3.3–4.5 µm.[2]

Distribution and ecology

Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus has been recorded in Europe, North America and Southwest Australia, growing in clusters on sawdust of pines, often in enclosed areas.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nuhn ME, Binder M, Taylor AF, Halling RE, Hibbett DS (2013). "Phylogenetic overview of the Boletineae". Fungal Biology. 117 (7–8): 479–511. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2013.04.008. PMID 23931115.
  2. 1 2 3 Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Both, Ernst E. (2011). "A Preliminary Survey of the genus Buchwaldoboletus" (PDF). Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 40: 1–14.
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