''Hortiboletus'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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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 ...
. It was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
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in 2015 by Giampaolo Simonini, Alfredo Vizzini, and Matteo Gelardi.
The erection of ''Hortiboletus'' follows recent
molecular
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studies that outlined a new
phylogenetic
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framework for the Boletaceae.
''Hortiboletus'' is derived from the
Latin
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word ''hortus'' "garden", referring to a typical habitat of the type species, ''
Hortiboletus rubellus''. The bolete ''
H. bubalinus'', originally described as a ''
Boletus
''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. ...
'' and later placed in ''
Xerocomus
''Xerocomus'' is a genus of poroid fungi related to ''Boletus''. Most members of ''Xerocomus'' are edible mushroom, edible, though of mediocre gastronomical value and inferior to the sought-after Boletus edulis, porcini.
Taxonomy
Many mycol ...
'', was transferred to the genus by Bálint Dima.
In 2015, Alona Yu. Biketova transferred ''Boletus campestris'' and ''Boletus engelii'' to ''Hortiboletus''.
''
Hortiboletus
''Hortiboletus'' is a genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2015 by Giampaolo Simonini, Alfredo Vizzini, and Matteo Gelardi. The erection of ''Hortiboletus'' follows recent molecular phylog ...
'' can be separated from closely related genera by their smooth basidiospores which are not striate or truncate and with an average spore quotient (length divided by width) usually lower than or up to 2.6.
Species
List of species from the ''Index Fungorum
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''.
References
External links
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Boletaceae
Boletales genera
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