''Boletus bainiugan'' is a species of
porcini-like fungus native to Henan, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in Central and Southwestern China, where it grows under ''
Pinus yunnanensis'', ''
Pinus kesiya'' and ''
Castanea mollissima''.
It is closely related to ''
Boletus reticulatus''.
[
The epiphet ''bainiugan'' is the ]Hanyu Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...
transcription of the fungus's Mandarin name, "white porcini". The other epiphet ''meiweiniuganjun'' likewise is a transcription of "delicious porcini", a name originally used to translate the epiphet of '' Boletus edulis''.
References
bainiugan
Fungi of China
Fungi described in 2013
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