''Hortiboletus bubalinus'' is a species of

bolete {{refimprove, date=July 2020 A bolete is a type of mushroom, or fungal fruiting body. It can be identified thanks to a unique mushroom cap. The cap is clearly different from the stem. On the underside of the cap there is usually a spongy su ...

fungus in the family

Boletaceae The Boletaceae are a family of mushroom-forming fungi, primarily characterised by small pores on the spore-bearing hymenial surface (at the underside of the mushroom), instead of gills as are found in most agarics. Nearly as widely distributed ...

. 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 gil ...

'', the fungus was transferred to ''

Xerocomus ''Xerocomus'' is a genus of poroid fungi related to '' Boletus''. Many mycologists did not originally recognize the distinction between the two genera and placed ''Xerocomus'' taxa in genus ''Boletus''. However, several molecular phylogenetic ...

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

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