Boletellus emodensis, commonly known as the shaggy cap, is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. It was described by English mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1851 as Boletus emodensis,[2] and transferred to Boletellus by Rolf Singer in 1942.[3] Characterised by a distinctive reddish shaggy cap, it grows in eucalypt woodlands. It produces a brown spore print, and has fusiform (spindle-shaped) spores that are 16–20 by 7–9 μm with longitudinal grooves. It is similar in appearance to Boletellus ananiceps, but the latter species is scaly rather than shaggy, has a pinkish tint, and lacks grooves in the spores.[4]

Boletellus emodensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Boletellus
Species:
B. emodensis
Binomial name
Boletellus emodensis
(Berk.) Singer (1942)
Synonyms[1]
  • Boletus emodensis Berk. (1851)

References

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  1. ^ "Boletellus emodensis (Berk.) Singer 1942". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
  2. ^ Berkeley MJ. (1851). "Decades of fungi. Decades XXXII, XXXIII. Sikkim Himalaya fungi, collected by Dr. J.D. Hooker". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. 3: 48.
  3. ^ Singer R. (1942). "Das System der Agaricales. II". Annales Mycologici. 40: 1–132 (see p. 19).
  4. ^ Young AM. (2005). A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press. pp. 187–8. ISBN 0-86840-742-9.
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