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Phylloporus pelletieriPhoto: ABFG libraryBack to the BAP list |
DescriptionGeneral: Smallish bolete with dark reddish-brown cap and distinctive bright yellow gills; stem flushed cap colour; solitary on soil, often acidic near coniferous and broad leaf trees.Dimensions: Cap 4-6cm dia; stem 2-6cm tall x 0.8-1.5cm dia. Cap: Dark reddish brown, finely downy; at first hemispherical becoming flattened with low blunt umbo and incurved margin; flesh pallid yellow, cap-coloured beneath the cuticle, thick, spongy. Stem: Yellowish but flushed cap colour in the mid section, smooth or slightly pruinose, more or less equal or tapering below, ring absent; flesh concolorous with cap and fairly tough. |
Spores: Light greenish-yellow, smooth, ellipsoid, with drops, 10.5-12.5 x 3.5-4.5 µm. Basidia 4 spored; cystidia abundant, fusiform to clavate. Odour: Not Distinctive. Taste: Not Distinctive or slightly nutty. Chemical Tests: None. Occurrence: Late Summer to Autumn. |
| Qualifying criterion: 1: internationally threatened species |
| Justification: threatened in over 50% of its European range |
| Threats: air pollution, habitat destruction, ground compaction, felling of host trees, eutrophication |
| Action Required: Survey and monitoring; protection against habitat loss and degradation; site liaison and management; ecological research. |
Statistics:UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records update VC records regularly misidentified |
Total records: 81 |
| Earliest recording: 1893 | |
| Latest recording: 2007 | |
| Vice Counties and (frequency): 3(6); 6(3); 7(1); 11(2); 12(3); 13(1); 16(8); 17(3); 22(2); 23(1); 24(1); 27(1); 28(1); 34(6); 36(1); 42(1); 44(1); 45(1); 62(1); 63(1); 70(3); 88(2); 99(2) | |
| Pre-1960: 17 records | |
| NBN Gateway grid map | Post-1960: 64 records |