Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Boletinellus paluster (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 1 : 8. 1909
Boletus palusterVeok, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. ?3: 132. 1872. Boletinus paluster Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 8 : 78. 1889.
Pileus thin, broad, convex to plane or slightly depressed, at times with a small umbo, 3-7 cm. broad, 1.5-2 cm. thick; surface floccose-tomentose, bright-red; margin thin, subincurved : context yellowish-white, unchangeable, comparatively thick ; tubes slightly decurrent, short, yellow, changing to bluish-green when wounded, becoming sordid-ochraceous with age, mouths very large, 1-2 mm. in radial diameter, compound, angular ; spores ellipsoid, dirty greenish-yellow when fresh, becoming pinkish-brown, 6-8 X 2.5^ /z: stipe slender, yellow and striate at the apex, minutely squamulose, strongly tinged with red, yellow and tomentose at the base, solid, 2.5-5 cm. long, 4-6 cm. thick. Type locality : North Elba, New York.
Habitat : Wet places, usually among moss.
Distribution" : Ontario to New Jersey.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
