''Pulveroboletus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of fungi 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 ...

. The genus has a

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and contains 41 species.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by American mycologist

William Alphonso Murrill William Alphonso Murrill (October 13, 1869 – December 25, 1957) was an American mycologist, known for his contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales and Polyporaceae. In 1904, he became the assistant Curator at the New York Botanical Ga ...

in 1909. He defined species in the genus as having a cap and stem "clothed with a conspicuous sulphur-yellow, powdery tomentum, which may be the remains of a universal veil: context white, fleshy; tubes adnate, yellowish, covered with a large veil: spores oblong-ellipsoid, ochraceous-brown: stipe solid, annulate, not reticulate." Murrill set ''Pulveroboletus ravenelii'' as the

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Species

The genus consists of the following species:

Former species

*''Pulveroboletus acaulis'', moved to '' Buchwaldoboletus acaulis'' *''Pulveroboletus flaviporus'', moved to '' Aureoboletus flaviporus'' *''Pulveroboletus parvulus'', moved to '' Buchwaldoboletus parvulus'' *''Pulveroboletus phaeocephalus'', moved to '' Xerocomus phaeocephalus'' *''Pulveroboletus viridis'', moved to '' Boletus viridis'' *''Pulveroboletus xylophilus'', moved to '' Buchwaldoboletus xylophilus''

References

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* * {{Taxonbar , from=Q2499646 Boletaceae Boletales genera Taxa named by William Alphonso Murrill