Pileus 1.5-5.5 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, subvelutinous when young, finely matted and finely areolate with age, dark brown. Flesh pale yellow, quickly blue when exposed, with mild odor and taste. Hymenophore adnexed to deeply depressed, xerocomoid, bright yellow at first, soon greenish yellow, cyanescent, with angular pores up to 1 mm broad. Stipe 3.5-7.5 cm long, 3-7 mm broad, strict or curved, equal quite fibrous, dry, coarsely scabrous at apex, less so downward, but then coalescing into ridges, yellow at apex when young, brown downward, white at base, with interior yellow in apex, reddish downward, cyanescent.
Spores are short-fusoid, longitudinally ribbed and lack cross striae.
[NOTE: the freshest specimens have red in the stipe; this color soon disappears]
Papua New Guinea. Queensland, Australia
Bay brown pileus. Yellow, cyanescent tubes and pores. Red stipe that soon fades, but possesses obvious scaber-like scales at apex.
Fagaceae forest in Papua New Guinea; wet & dry sclerophyll containing Allocasuarina & Eucalyptus grandis and other Myrtaceae in northern Queensland.
Reminiscent of Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell
Boletellus badiovinosus is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. Found in Papua New Guinea, it was described as new to science by Egon Horak in 1977.[1]
Boletellus badiovinosus is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. Found in Papua New Guinea, it was described as new to science by Egon Horak in 1977.
