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Phylloporus clelandii
A large bolete with gold coloured gills! 200mm across. Brown-olive smooth leathery top almost flat when mature. Stipe thick, fibrous pale tan, slightly bulbous near base. Gills yellow, dense, slightly decurrent, notably with crossed veins.
Dry open eucalyptus dominated highway median strip. This specimen might have been associated with the roots of a very close E.microcarpa? which was about 2 metres away.
Being a bolete these actually haves pores which are found on the surface of the gills !! P.clelandii is related to a northern hemisphere version P.rhodozanthus associated with introduced species of trees. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/258... Distribution in Australia http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
Spotted on May 27, 2013
Submitted on Jun 5, 2013
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