''Rubroboletus dupainii'', commonly known as Dupain's bolete, is a bolete fungus of the genus ''

Rubroboletus ''Rubroboletus'' is a genus of bolete fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed by Chinese mycologists in 2014 with '' Rubroboletus sinicus'' as the type species. Species are characterized by having a reddish cap surface, yellow tubes ...

''. It is native to Europe, where it is

threatened Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensat ...

, and red listed in six countries. It also occurs in North America, although it is rare there. It was first recorded from

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, and then from

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in 2009. It was reported from

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in 2007, growing under '' Quercus peduncularis'' and other

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s. The bolete was first described scientifically by French mycologist Jean Louis Émile Boudier in 1902. It was transferred to the new genus ''

'' in 2014 along with several other allied reddish colored, blue-staining bolete species.

Phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

ally, ''R. dupainii'' is the sister species of ''

Rubroboletus lupinus ''Rubroboletus lupinus'', commonly known as the wolf bolete, is a bolete fungus of the genus ''Rubroboletus''. Originally described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1838 as species of ''Boletus'', it was transferred to ''Rubroboletus'' in 2015, a genus ...

''.

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* dupainii Fungi described in 1902 Fungi of Europe Fungi of North America {{Boletales-stub

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