Boletus tylopilopsis

Boletus tylopilopsis is an edible basidiomycete mushroom, of the genus Boletus in the family Boletaceae. Morphologically similar to the members of Tylopilus in the pinkish hymenophore and belonging to the porcini group (Boletus sect. Boletus), it was first described in 2015, and is known to be found only in China, Yunnan Province.[2]

Boletus tylopilopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Boletus
Species:
B. tylopilopsis
Binomial name
Boletus tylopilopsis
B. Feng, Y.Y. Cui, J.P. Xu & Zhu L. Yang, 2015[1]
Boletus tylopilopsis
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Pores on hymenium
Cap is convex
Hymenium is adnate
Stipe is bare
Ecology is mycorrhizal
Edibility is edible

Morphology

Cap

The cap is 8.5 to 10.5 cm in diameter, hemispherical in shape; The surface is dry and distinctly rugose, dull yellow to yellow with olivacous tinge. The flesh is cream to yellowish in color and does not turn blue when bruised.

Pores

The pores are white-stuffed when young, becoming pinkish like those of Tylopilus spp., unchanged when bruised.

Stipe

From 9 to 12 cm long; 1.5–2.2 cm thick; yellowish with reticulations concolorous to the pileus; shaped clavate to subcylindrical, tapered upwards.

Spores

Subfusiform, 12.5-15 x 4.5–5.5 µm.[2]

Habitat and distribution

Solitary or gregarious in the subtropical Fagaceae forests in Southwest China.[2]

References

  1. "Index Fungorum - Names Record".
  2. Cui, Yang-Yang; Feng, Bang; Wu, Gang; Xu, Jianping; Yang, Zhu L. (November 2016). "Porcini mushrooms (Boletus sect. Boletus) from China" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 81 (1): 189–212. doi:10.1007/s13225-015-0336-7. ISSN 1560-2745. S2CID 256068156.
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