''Aureoboletus gentilis'' is a species of

bolete A bolete is a type of mushroom, or fungal fruiting body. It can be identified thanks to a unique cap. On the underside of the cap there is usually a spongy surface with pores, instead of the gills typical of mushrooms. A similar pore surface i ...

fungus in the family

Boletaceae The Boletaceae are a Family (biology), family of mushroom-forming fungi, primarily characterised by small pores on the spore-bearing hymenium, hymenial surface (at the underside of the mushroom), instead of Lamella (mycology), gills as are found ...

. Originally described as ''Boletus sanguineus'' var. ''gentilis'' by French mycologist

Lucien Quélet Lucien Quélet (; 14 July 1832 – 25 August 1899) was a French natural history, naturalist and mycologist. Quélet discovered several species of fungi and was the founder of the Société mycologique de France, a society devoted to mycological ...

in 1884, it was transferred to the genus ''

Aureoboletus ''Aureoboletus'' is a genus of bolete fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Czech mycologist Zdeněk Pouzar in 1957. A taxonomic monograph was published in 2010 by Wolfgang Klofac. At least 11 species ...

'' by

Zdeněk Pouzar Zdeněk Pouzar (13 April 1932 – 4 June 2023) was a Czech mycologist. Along with František Kotlaba, he published several works about the taxonomy of polypore, corticioid, and gilled fungi. Pouzar was a noted expert on stromatic pyrenomycetes ...

in 1957. It is considered vulnerable in the Czech Republic.

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* gentilis Fungi described in 1884 Fungi of Europe Fungus species {{Boletales-stub