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cf. Tylopilus balloui
Striking Dayglo orange bolete type fungus with orange stipe and white pores. About 70mm tall and 60mm across. Approximately 20 specimens found in the area and all had some damage from wildlife.
Found amongst very rough sword grass and associated with nearby Eucalyptus ?ovata. Open sclerophyll dry eucalyptus woodland.
Churchill N.P., Lysterfield
There are several Tylopilus in Australia which, at first glance, match those of northern America. Only trouble is they are associated with eucalyptus instead of quercus (oak).
Roy Halling has said of them ""The orange thingy from Snowy River is a Tylopilus in the balloui consortium. This group has really diversified in Australia. The genus name, Rubinoboletus, has been misapplied to the group in Australia. Only one sp. has been described (from WA) by Watling (R. phaseolisporus) and that epithet tells you that the spores are bean-shaped. All the ballouioids have this shape of spore. In Australia, I know of white, red, pink, orange, 2 yellow ones, gray brown and olive ones, and they remain undescribed at this point."
From available images online it seems to me the pores are different on the Australian versions - smaller, more tightly packed and rounder.
Spotted on Mar 7, 2020
Submitted on Mar 10, 2020
3 Comments
Awesome as usual.
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Hi Mark. I was just going to leave a test message for notifications but read your post. Not only is the spotting interesting, but your description, habitat and notes provide a great example of how to do write-ups. Thanks for sharing this.