''Buchwaldoboletus parvulus'' is a species of
bolete fungus in the family
Boletaceae native to
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. It grows on dead
bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, bu ...
stumps, has a convex bright yellow
cap, yellow to red-brown pores, and a yellow above, reddish below stipe.
Taxonomy and naming
Originally described by & Purush. as ''Pulveroboletus parvulus'' in 1988, it was given its current name by
Ernst Both
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Surname
* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
* Anton Ernst (1975-) ...
and
Beatriz Ortiz-Santana
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in ''A preliminary survey of the genus Buchwaldoboletus'', published in „Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences” in 2011.
Description
The
cap is bright yellow, convex, pulverulent, and can reach 7–13 mm in diameter. The pores are small, and tubes are adnate, concolorous with the
pileus, 3–4 mm deep. The stipe is very short, excentric and concolorous with the cap, becoming olive-brown when cut. Natarajan's description doesn't mention any bluing of the flesh, characteristic for ''Buchwaldoboletus'' genus.
measure 5–6 by 3–4
µm
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.
References
External links
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Boletaceae
Fungi described in 1988
Fungi of Asia