Species flashcards

Description

Cap: 3–8 cm across; convex when young, later spreading, with an infolded and often irregular margin. Surface velvety, coloured from ochre-yellow to reddish brown.

Gills: Bright golden yellow, later browning and decurrent on the stem. They have numerous cross-veins, making them partly connected and reminiscent of a tubular layer.

Stem: 3–6 cm tall and about 1 cm thick, cylindrical, sometimes slightly eccentric or weakly rooting. Yellow with reddish-brown fibres.

Flesh: Thin and pale yellow, reddish beneath the cap skin. Usually unchanging or only weakly staining when cut; odour and taste mild.

Spores: Spore print brown with an olive tint. Spores ellipsoid, finely bacillate ornamented, 10–14.5 × 4–5 µm.

Occurrence: A mycorrhizal species of acidic deciduous and coniferous woodland from June to November. Most often with beech, occasionally with oak or spruce.

Edibility: Edible, but protected in Hungary and therefore not to be collected.

Lookalikes: Its golden-yellow, cross-veined and fused gills make it difficult to confuse with other species. It differs from suede boletes by its gilled spore-bearing layer.

Note: Phylloporus refers to the distinctive morphology of the spore-bearing layer: the porous structure typical of boletes takes a gilled form, as if the pores had extended into leaf-like gills. The epithet commemorates the 19th-century French mycologist M. Pelletier.

Species description: First described by Joseph-Henri Léveillé; transferred to Phylloporus by Lucien Quélet in 1888.

Taxonomy

1. PhylumBasidiomycota
2. ClassAgaricomycetes
3. OrderBoletales
4. FamilyBoletaceae
5. GenusPhylloporus

• Species: Phylloporus pelletieri
• Authority: (Lév.) Quél. (1888)
• English name: Golden-gilled bolete
• Ecological status: mycorrhizal
• Edibility: edible