Aureoboletus auriporus

Aureoboletus auriporus, is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae that is found in Europe and North America. It was originally described in 1872 by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck, who called it Boletus auriporus.[2] Zdenek Pouzar transferred it to the genus Aureoboletus in 1957.[3]

Aureoboletus auriporus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Boletaceae
Genus:
Aureoboletus
Binomial name
Aureoboletus auriporus
(Peck) Pouzar (1957)
Synonyms[1]
  • Boletus auriporus Peck (1872)
  • Ceriomyces auriporus (Peck) Murrill (1909)
  • Xerocomus auriporus (Peck) Singer (1940)
  • Pulveroboletus auriporus (Peck) Singer (1947)
  • Aureoboletus novoguineensis Hongo (1973)
  • Aureoboletus auriporus var. novoguineensis (Hongo) Klofac (2010)

The species is edible, and could be confused with (the also edible) Xerocomus illudens.[4]

See also

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Aureoboletus auriporus (Peck) Pouzar". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  2. Peck CH. (1873). "Report of the Botanist (1869)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. 23: 27–135 (see p. 133).
  3. Peck CH. (1957). "Nova genera macromycetum I". Ceská Mykologie. 11 (1): 48–50.
  4. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. pp. 256, 258. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.


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