
Golden gilled bolete (Phylloporus clelandii)
About 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 is associated with introduced species of trees.
Similar species: Boletales
By Mark Ridgway
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Uploaded Mar 4, 2016. Captured in 110-114 Mount Dandenong Rd, Ringwood East VIC 3135, Australia.