''Hortiboletus'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the family
Boletaceae. It was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
in 2015 by Giampaolo Simonini, Alfredo Vizzini, and Matteo Gelardi.
The erection of ''Hortiboletus'' follows recent
molecular
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studies that outlined a new
phylogenetic
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framework for the Boletaceae.
''Hortiboletus'' is derived from the
Latin
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word ''hortus'' "garden", referring to a typical habitat of the type species, ''
Hortiboletus rubellus
''Hortiboletus rubellus'', commonly known as the ruby bolete, is a small, dainty, brightly coloured member of the family Boletaceae, with a reddish cap and stipe, and yellow pores. Like many boletes, it stains blue when cut or bruised. It is f ...
''. The bolete ''
H. bubalinus'', originally described as a ''
Boletus'' and later placed in ''
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 stu ...
'', was transferred to the genus by Bálint Dima.
In 2015, Alona Yu. Biketova transferred ''Boletus campestris'' and ''Boletus engelii'' to ''Hortiboletus''.
Species
*''
Hortiboletus amygdalinus'' Xue T. Zhu & Zhu L. Yang 2016
*''
Hortiboletus bubalinus'' (Oolbekk. & Duin) L. Albert & Dima 2015
*''
Hortiboletus campestris'' (A.H. Sm. & Thiers) Biketova & Wasser 2015
* ''
Hortiboletus coccyginus'' (Thiers) C.F. Schwarz, N. Siegel & J.L. Frank 2020
* ''
Hortiboletus engelii'' (Hlaváček) Biketova & Wasser 2015
* ''
Hortiboletus indorubellus'' K. Das, D. Chakr., Baghela, S.K. Singh & Dentinger 2016
* ''
Hortiboletus kohistanensis'' A. Naseer, S. Sarwar & A.N. Khalid 2019
* ''
Hortiboletus rubellus
''Hortiboletus rubellus'', commonly known as the ruby bolete, is a small, dainty, brightly coloured member of the family Boletaceae, with a reddish cap and stipe, and yellow pores. Like many boletes, it stains blue when cut or bruised. It is f ...
'' (Krombh.) Simonini, Vizzini & Gelardi 2015
* ''
Hortiboletus subpaludosus'' (W.F. Chiu) Xue T. Zhu & Zhu L. Yang 2016
List of species from the '' Index Fungorum''.
References
Boletaceae
Boletales genera
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