Boletus

King bolete Boletus edulis, copyright Bernard Spragg.

Belongs within: Boletaceae.

Boletus is a genus of mushrooms in which typically the surface of the immature poroid hymenophore is covered by a layer of tangled white hyphae, and the stipe is basally broadened and more or less reticulated.

<==Boletus Fr. 1821 (nom. cons.) (see below for synonymy)KC01
|--+--B. appendiculatusBB02
| `--B. fechtneriBB02
`--+--+--B. edulisBB02
| `--+--B. aereusBB02
| `--B. reticulatusBB02
`--+--B. radicansBB02
`--+--B. calopusBB02
`--B. coniferarumBB02

Boletus incertae sedis:
B. alboaterW01
B. (sect. Edules) atkinsoniiW01
B. aurantibusW01
B. aureomycelinusW01
B. balloui [=Rubinoboletus balloui]W01
B. chrysenteronMS98
B. coccineinanusW01
B. crasipediusW01
B. cremeusW01
B. cutifractusW01
B. eximius [=Leccinum eximium, Tylopilus eximius]BB00
B. frostiiW01
B. funerariusW01
B. hirsutusL97
B. kumaeusW01
B. lividusSS16
B. longipes [=Porphyrellus longipes; incl. B. tristis]W01
B. magnificusW01
B. manicusW01
B. nanusW01
B. olivaceobrunneusW01
B. peltatusW01
B. pernanusW01
B. phaeocephalusW01
B. reayiW01
B. rufoaureusW01
B. satanasHB02
B. spiniferW01
B. tristiculusW01
B. valensW01
B. viscidulusW01
B. xylophilusW01
B. sect. LuridiBB00
|--B. erythropusBB00
`--B. luridusBB00
0--B. carpini [=Leccinum carpini; incl. L. griseum]BB00
`--+--B. crocipodius [=Leccinum crocipodium]BB00
`--+--+--B. corsicus [=Leccinum corsicum]BB00
| `--B. lepidus [=Leccinum lepidum]BB00
`--B. sect. PseudoleccinumBB00
|--B. subglabripes [=Leccinum subglabripes]BB00
`--+--B. longicurvipesBB00
`--B. rubropunctus [=Leccinum rubropunctum]BB00

Boletus Fr. 1821 (nom. cons.) [=Tubiporus Karst. 1881, Versipellis Quél. 1886 (nom. rej.), Xerocomopsis Reichert 1940; incl. Ceriomyces Murrill 1909 non Corda 1837, Dictyopus Quél. 1886, Gymnogomphus Fayod 1889 (n. d.), Oedipus Bataille 1908 non Tschudi 1838 (ICZN), Suillellus Murrill 1909, Suillus Micheli ex Adans. 1763 non Gray 1821, Veloporus Quél. 1888]KC01

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BB00] Binder, M., & H. Besl. 2000. 28S rDNA sequence data and chemotaxonomical analyses on the generic concept of Leccinum (Boletales). In: A. M. Bresadola (ed.) Micologia 2000 pp. 75–86. AMB, Fundacione Centro Studi Micologici: Trento (Italy).

[BB02] Binder, M., & A. Bresinsky. 2002. Retiboletus, a new genus for a species-complex in the Boletaceae producing retipolides. Feddes Repertorium 113 (1–2): 30–40.

[HB02] Hibbett, D. S., & M. Binder. 2002. Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series BBiological Sciences 269: 1963–1969.

[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi 9th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[L97] Lasteyrie, C. 1797. Mémoire sur la couleur tirée d’un champignon. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societé Philomathique de Paris 1 (3): 21–22.

[MS98] Margulis, L., & K. V. Schwartz. 1998. Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth 3rd ed. W. H. Freeman and Company: New York.

[SS16] Sydow, H., & P. Sydow. 1916. Fungi papuani. Die von C. Ledermann in Neu-Guinea gesammelten Pilze. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 54: 246–261.

[W01] Watling, R. 2001. The relationships and possible distributional patterns of boletes in south-east Asia. Mycological Research 105 (12): 1440–1448.

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