Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Boletales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Sinoboletus magnisporus
 
   
   
 Author:

Sinoboletus magnisporus Zang & C. M. Chen, Fung. Sci. 13: 24. 1998.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 3-3.5 cm broad, hemispheric to convex, becoming broadly convex to plane, surface dry, yellowish brown to reddish brown. Context 0.5-0.8 cm thick, yellow, not changing when cut. Hymenium golden-yellow to bright yellow. Tubes with cross-veins produced in two definit layers, boletinoid and compound, the superior tubes 2-3 mm long, 0.9-1 mm diameter, adnate or subadnate. Pores angular or irregular, large 5-9 per cm. Stipes 5-6.5 cm long, 0.6-1.2 cm thick, obclavate, subequal, reddish brown, striate at the apex, surface dry, not reticulate. Mycelium whitish to yellowish. Basidiospores 15.6-20.8 × 6.5-7.8 μm, elliptic, smooth, hyaline to pale yellow. Basidia 25-30 × 9-14 μm, clavate, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia 20-35 × 9-13 μm , fusiform. Cheilocystidia 30-52 × 10-15 μm, broad fusiform. Tube-trama parallel and divaricate arrangement.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung: Shanchiaoshan, alt.1400m, 25 Oct 1994, Huang HW. 831271.

 
 
 
 Habitat: In sylvis humidis praecipue in Rhododendron formosanum Hemsl..
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Zang, M. 1992; Zang, M and Chen, CM. 1998.

   
   
   
 Provided:

C. M. Chen

 
 
 Note: This taxon is close to Sinoboletus duplicatoporus Zang (Zang. 1992), but characterized by the larger inferior tubes, larger size spores, and associated with Rhododendron formosanum Hemsl., not Fagaceous partners.