''Hortiboletus bubalinus'' 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 in 1991 as a species of ''

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. ...

'', the fungus was transferred to ''

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 ...

'' in 1993. It was transferred to ''Hortiboletus'' by Bálint Dima in 2015.

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* Boletaceae Fungi described in 1991 Fungi of Europe Fungus species {{Boletales-stub