Chalciporus Bataille
Three species are known in Europe. Fruitbody boletoid. Tubes yellow, yellow cinnamon or carmine. Flesh acrid or bitterish.
Chalciporus hypochryseus (?utara) Courtecuisse
Description
Not yet known to the author. Tubes and pores yellow, in every other respect seems rather similar to Chalciporus piperatus.
Habitat. Coniferous forests.
Distribution. Apparently very rare in Europe, known from the Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy and Spain.
Note. Sometimes treated as mere variety of Chalciporus piperatus (see Klofac 2006)
Photographs
No illustrations of this rare bolete are available to me. Colour illustrations are found in Galli (1998), Simonini (1998), Mu?oz (2005) and ?utara & al. (2009).
Important literature
Dimou, D.M., Zervakis, G.I. & Polemis, E. 2008. Mycodiversity studies in selected ecosystems of Greece: IV. Macrofungi from Abies cephalonica forests and other intermixed tree species (Oxya Mt., central Greece). Mycotaxon 104: 3942 + on-line version: 152 (http://mycotaxon.com/resources/checklists/dimou-v104-checklist.pdf). (available online)
Galli, R. 1998. I Boleti. Atlante pratico-monographico per la determinazione dei boleti. Edinatura, Milano.
Klofac, W. 2006. Die Gattung Chalciporus, ein weltweiter ?berblick. ?sterreichische Zeitschrift f?r Pilzkunde 15: 3165. (available online, 12.9 MB PDF)
Mu?oz, J.A. 2005. Boletus s. l. In: Fungi Europaei. Vol. 1. Pp. 1951. Edizioni Candusso, Alassio.
Simonini, G. 1998. Qualche specie rara o poco conosciuta della famiglia Boletaceae. In: Fungi non delineati. Vol. 6. Pp. 156. Libreria Mykoflora, Alassio.
?utara, J. 1993. Boletus hypochryseus, nov? hrib ze skupiny druhu Boletus piperatus. Cesk? Mykologie 46: 203208.
?utara, J., Mik??k, M. & Janda, V. 2009. H?ibovit? houby. ?eled Boletaceae a rody Gyrodon, Gyroporus, Boletinus a Suillus. Academia, Praha.