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Three new species of Austroboletus are described from Australia. Austroboletus austrovirens has been collected repeatedly in northern Queensland and the Northern Territory, and is primarily distinguished by its dry, green pileus and stipe ornamentation, and boletoid spores with meandering ridges and pits. Austroboletus viscidoviridis is known from southeastern coastal Queensland and Cape Tribulation; it is recognized by a glutinous-viscid, olive-green pileus, brown reticulum on the stipe, and amygdaliform spores with nodulose-tuberculate ornamentation. Austroboletus roseialbus has only been collected in eastern New South Wales and is characterized by a white pileus with subtle rosy tints, and flattened, white, lanose patches; the spores are amygdaliform with irregular alveolate-reticulate ornamentation.
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REH is grateful to The National Science Foundation (USA) for funding under grants DEB #0414665 and DEB #1020421, and to the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration in grant #8457–08. The Queensland Herbarium (BRI) provided assistance and logistical support to REH for herbarium and field studies while in Queensland. We are indebted to M. Baxter for expertise and access to the SEM facility at the CUNY-Lehman College Campus (Bronx, NY, USA). Dr. R. Berndt kindly arranged a loan of specimens from ZT (Zürich). A collecting trip to northern Queensland in Feb 1992, organized by N. Malajczuk, was sponsored by the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). REH thanks P. Reddell and M. Castellano for collections made during that time. J. and T. Van Der Heul greatly aided field work in northeastern New South Wales, and I. Dodd provided dried specimens as well as access to collecting sites in the vicinity of West Kempsey. P. O’Sullivan kindly guided REH on forays on the Central Coast, NSW, expanding the distribution of A. roseialbus. P. Leonard graciously supplied material from Queensland.
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Fechner, N., Bonito, G., Bougher, N.L. et al. New species of Austroboletus (Boletaceae) in Australia. Mycol Progress 16, 769–775 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-017-1314-0
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