Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Boletinus cavipes (Opat.) Kalchb. Ic. Hymen
Hung. 52. 1877.
Boletus cavipes Opat. Comm. Bolet. 11. 1836.
Boletus ampliporus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26 : 67. 1874. (Type from New York.)
Pileus broadly convex, rather tough, flexible, usually subumbonate, 3.5-10 cm. broad ; surface soft, fibrillose-squamulose, tawny-brown, sometimes tinged with reddish or purplish : context thin, yellowish ; tubes slightly decurrent, pale-yellow when young, darker and tinged with green at maturity, becoming dingy-ochraceous with age : spores ellipsoid, olivaceous when fresh, changing later to yell owish-och race ous, 7.5-10X4^: stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, slightly fibrillose or floccose, tawny-brown'or yellowish-brown, yellowish at the apex, hollow within, sometimes stuffed when young, 3.5-7 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick; veil white, evanescent, partly adhering to the margin of the pileus and partly to the stipe in the form, of a delicate annulus.
Type locality ; Hungary.
Habitat : Swamps or damp mossy places.
Distribution : New England and New York ; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
