''Pulveroboletus'' is a genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. The genus has a
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
and contains 25 species.
Taxonomy
The genus was first described by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill 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 type species''.
Species
The genus consists of the following species:
Former species
*''Pulveroboletus acaulis'', moved to ''
Buchwaldoboletus acaulis
''Buchwaldoboletus acaulis'' is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to Lesser Antilles and Martinique. Found on wood in xero-mesophytic forests, it has a convex bright yellow cap, sulfur-yellow pores and stipe, and a br ...
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*''Pulveroboletus flaviporus'', moved to ''
Aureoboletus flaviporus
''Aureoboletus'' is a genus of bolete fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist Zdeněk Pouzar in 1957. A taxonomic monograph was published in 2010 by Wolfgang Klofac.
Species
Species from Index Fungorum
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*''Pulveroboletus parvulus'', moved to ''
Buchwaldoboletus parvulus
''Buchwaldoboletus parvulus'' is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to India. It grows on dead bamboo stumps, has a convex bright yellow cap, yellow to red-brown pores, and a yellow above, reddish below stipe.
Taxono ...
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*''Pulveroboletus phaeocephalus'', moved to ''
Xerocomus phaeocephalus
''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 ...
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*''Pulveroboletus viridis'', moved to ''
Boletus viridis
''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 ...
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*''Pulveroboletus xylophilus'', moved to ''
Buchwaldoboletus xylophilus
''Buchwaldoboletus xylophilus'' is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to Asia, found on wood. It has a convex brown cap, and a red-brown stipe. Its edibility is unknown.
Taxonomy and naming
Originally described by Thom ...