Rubroboletus

Rubroboletus
Rubroboletus satanas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Rubroboletus
Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang (2014)
Type species
Rubroboletus sinicus
(W.F.Chiu) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang (2014)

Rubroboletus is a genus of bolete fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed by Chinese mycologists in 2014 with Rubroboletus sinicus as the type species. Species are characterized by having a reddish cap surface, yellow tubes on the underside of the cap, and an orange-red to blood-red pore surface. Pinkish to red spots (reticula) are present on the stipe surface, and a bluish color change occurs when the bolete flesh is injured. Rubroboletus mushrooms have an olive-brown spore print, and produce smooth spores.[1] Eight species were included in the original circumscription (seven new combinations and one new species); five were added in 2015.[2][3][4]

Although R. sinicus is sold in markets in Yunnan, it is suspected of being poisonous; R. satanas and R. rhodoxanthus are also deemed poisonous.[1]

Species

References

  1. 1 2 Zhao K, Wu G, Yang ZL. "A new genus, Rubroboletus, to accommodate Boletus sinicus and its allies". Phytotaxa 188 (2): 61–77. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.188.2.1.
  2. Frank JL. (June 11, 2015). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum (248).
  3. Vizzini A. (March 24, 2015). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum (233).
  4. Della Maggiora M. (June 10, 2015). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum (246).

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