Leccinum scabrum (Bull.) Gray 1821

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Name scientific

Leccinum scabrum (Bull.) Gray 1821

Preferred name

Leccinum scabrum (Bull.) Gray 1821

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

(Bull.) Gray

Original authors

Bull.

Combination authors

Gray

Publication place

Gray, S.F. 1821: A Natural Arrangement of British Plants. 1. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy.

Year published

1821

Publication page

647

Sanctioning author

Fr.

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Boletus scaber Bull. 1783

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leccinum scabrum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Boletales

Family

Boletaceae

Genus

Leccinum

Species

scabrum

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Brown Birch Bolete

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Betula pendula Roth

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

has host

Betula

PDD (12 records from [Not available].)

has host

Betula pendula Roth

PDD (23 records from [Not available].)

has host

Populus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus cerris L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Sepedonium chrysospermum (Bull.) Fr. 1832

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Leccinum scabrum (Bull.) Gray 1821

Description

Type: Mycorrhizal Fungi; Description: Basidiomata pileate. Pileus brownish grey to dark brown, 50–110 mm in diameter, hemispherical, finely tomentose, dry; flesh white. Pore surface excavated around the apex of the stipe; tubes greyish white, up to 20 mm long; pores concolorous with tubes, round, 0.5 mm in diameter. Stipe more or less cylindrical, tapering towards the apex, greyish white, covered with dark grey scales, annulus absent, 50–130 mm long. Basidiospores elliptic-fusiform, 0-septate, 16–20 × 4–6 μm, smooth, yellowish brown.

Distribution

Distribution: Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Nelson, Mid Canterbury, Central Otago, Dunedin, Southland.; 1st Record: Rawlings (1951: as Boletus scaber).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: An edible fungus.; Host(s): Betula pendula.