Buchwaldoboletus pseudolignicola

Buchwaldoboletus pseudolignicola is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to Japan.

Buchwaldoboletus pseudolignicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Boletaceae
Genus:	Buchwaldoboletus
Species:	B. pseudolignicola
Binomial name
Buchwaldoboletus pseudolignicola (Neda) Both & B. Ortiz (2011)
Synonyms[1]
Gyrodon pseudolignicola (Neda) Har. Takah. Pulveroboletus pseudolignicola Neda

Taxonomy and naming

Originally described as Pulveroboletus pseudolignicola in 1987, it was reclassified to the genus Buchwaldoboletus in 2011.^[2]

Description

The cap is 4–17 cm, pulvinate to plane, velutinous, silky and tomentose, viscid when wet. Its color is yellow to cinnamon-brown. The pores are small and chrome yellow, tubes arcuate-decurrent; yellow, and context yellow, bluing when bruised. The stipe is 5–8 cm × 2–6 mm, central to sub eccentric, firm, yellow to orange, darker toward the base, bruising blue, and there is a yellow mycelium at the stipe base.^[3]

Spores are 5–7 × by.5–4.5 μm.^[3]

Distribution and ecology

Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus has been recorded in Japan, growing on sawdust of pines, fruiting July to September.^[3]