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Boletus
Sign in to saveBoletus is a genus of mushroom-producing fungi, comprising over 100 species. The genus Boletus was originally broadly defined and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, essentially containing all fungi with hymenial pores instead of gills. Since then, other genera have been defined gradually, such as Tylopilus by Petter Adolf Karsten in 1881, and old names such as Leccinum have been resurrected or redefined. Some mushrooms listed in older books as members of the genus have now been placed in separate genera. These include such as Boletus scaber, now Leccinum scabrum, Tylopilus felleus, Chalciporu
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Boletus is a genus of fungi within the family Boletaceae. It belongs to the order Boletales, class Agaricomycetes, and phylum Basidiomycota. The taxon was described by L. and is currently accepted in taxonomic records. While its habitat is listed as marine, the organism is part of the kingdom Fungi.
Records for Boletus are held by several institutions, including ECOSUR, IBUNAM, IB-CUCBA-UDG, UJAT, and UT. These records originate from countries such as Mexico, the United States, Cameroon, Germany, and Costa Rica. The genus has 3,814 records and 1,751 media items associated with it. Additionally, there are 60,110,991 occurrence records linked to the taxon.
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Species
Fungi
KINGDOM
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderBoletales
- FamilyBoletaceae
牛肝菌屬（學名：Boletus）為牛肝菌科的一屬。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,814
- With media
- 1,751
- Family
- Boletaceae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, IBUNAM, IB-CUCBA-UDG, UJAT, UT, USU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Cameroon, Germany, Costa Rica
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Phylogenetic tree of ''Boletus''
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Boletus is a genus of mushroom-producing fungi, comprising over 100 species. The genus Boletus was originally broadly defined and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, essentially containing all fungi with hymenial pores instead of gills. Since then, other genera have been defined gradually, such as Tylopilus by Petter Adolf Karsten in 1881, and old names such as Leccinum have been resurrected or redefined. Some mushrooms listed in older books as members of the genus have now been placed in separate genera. These include such as Boletus scaber, now Leccinum scabrum, Tylopilus felleus, Chalciporus piperatus and Suillus luteus. Most boletes have been found to be ectomycorrhizal fungi, which means that they form a mutualistic relationship with the roots system of certain kinds of plants. More recently, Boletus has been found to be massively polyphyletic, with only a small percentage of the over 300 species that have been assigned to Boletus actually belonging there and necessitating the description and resurrection of many more genera.
The name is derived from the Latin term bōlētus 'mushroom' from the Ancient Greek , ', ultimately from , ' 'lump' or 'clod'. However, the of Galen is thought to have been the much prized Amanita caesarea.
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