''Chalciporus amarellus'' is a

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 of 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 ...

, native to

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. It was first described in 1883 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 ...

as ''Boletus amarellus'', and later transferred in genus ''

Chalciporus ''Chalciporus'' is a genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae (suborder (biology), suborder Boletineae). There are approximately 25 species in the genus. French mycologist Frédéric Bataille erected the genus in 1908, though it did not gain gener ...

'' by

Frédéric Bataille Frédéric Bataille (; born 17 July 1850 in Mandeure, Franche-Comté – died 29 April 1946 in Besançon, Franche-Comté) was a French educator, poet and mycologist. From 1870 to 1884 he was a schoolteacher in the vicinity of Montbéliard, ...

in 1908. Genetically, this species is closely related to '' Chalciporus rubinellus''.

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* amarellus Fungi of Europe Fungi described in 1993 Fungus species {{Boletales-stub