| Family
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Bankeraceae |
| Accession Number
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F035859 |
| Genus
|
Boletopsis |
| Species
|
aff. grisea |
| Species Author
|
(Peck) Bondartsev & Singer |
| Date
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28/10/2023 |
| Morphological Description
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Cap features:
Dark grey smooth cap with white stipe mottled in slightly lighter brown. Orange or salmon pink at base of stipe.
Margin entire
Firm or rigid.
Pore surface:
3 pores/mm and are very shallow
White pored surface
Slugs and slug damage found on pore surface
Pore surface dried to dark brown colour in dried specimen
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| Collector
|
Justin Chan |
| Number
|
JC20231028_05 |
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Cap shape when mature |
5 globular |
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Cap shape in center |
2 even or flat |
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Cap shape from above |
1 circular-even if wavy |
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color of top surface |
11 dark brown |
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Secondary color top surface |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Cap color with age |
11 dark brown |
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Cap stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Cap width |
55.25 |
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Cap surface texture |
2 smooth |
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Cap stickiness |
1 dry |
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Cap has concentric zones of color |
No |
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Cap stalk easily part |
No |
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Cap hygrophanous |
No |
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Cap flesh color |
1 white |
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Cap flesh stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Flesh hardness |
2 firm, fleshy |
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Flesh toughness |
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile |
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Flesh fracture |
2 irregular tear |
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Cap cross section |
3 incurved |
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Cap margin surface |
2 smooth |
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Cap edge |
1 smooth |
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Stipe shape |
6 taper down |
|
Stipe core |
1 solid |
|
Stipe position |
1 central |
|
Stipe flesh hardness |
2 firm, fleshy |
|
Stipe flesh toughness |
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile |
|
Stipe flesh fracture |
2 irregular tear |
|
Stipe flesh color |
1 white |
|
Stipe flesh stain color |
2 light gray |
|
Stipe primary color |
1 white |
|
Stipe secondary color |
5 orange |
|
Stipe stain color |
1 white |
|
Stipe surface texture |
10 smooth |
|
Stipe width |
27 |
|
Stipe length |
95 |
|
Gill attachment |
3 decurrent |
|
Gill collarium |
No |
|
Gill sawtooth edge |
No |
|
Hymenium color when young |
1 white |
|
Hymenium color when mature |
1 white |
|
Hymenium stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Gills break from cap |
No |
|
Gills deliquescent |
No |
|
Gills mottled face |
No |
|
Gills secede from stalk |
No |
|
Gills waxy feel |
Yes |
|
Gills anastomosing |
No |
|
Gills forked |
No |
|
Ring type |
5 none |
|
Partial veil type |
5 none |
|
Ring location on stalk |
5 none |
|
Ring number |
3 none |
|
Ring color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Volva type |
6 none |
|
Volva color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Habit |
3 compact clumps |
|
Taste |
3 mild/none |
|
Smell |
2 mild/none |
|
Spore print color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Latex color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Latex stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction ammonia color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction ferrous sulphate color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
| Reaction Melzer's color
|
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction potassium |
9 brown- use when other browns do not fit |
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Spore shape |
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Spore ornamentation |
none observed |
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Spore length |
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Spore width |
|
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phylum |
Basidiomycota |
|
material collected |
pored mushroom |
|
trama type |
cystidia absent, trama hyphae hylaine |
|
cap cuticle type |
cortical section under microscope shows hyphal swellings |
|
clamp connections |
yes in trama |
|
cystidia |
none observed |
|
morphology summary |
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| Notes
|
Comparisons to other herbarium specimens of B. grisea have wider and deeper pores than the pores found in the fresh and dried specimen. Perhaps this specimen was collected before it was fully mature. |
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Date Modified |
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