The Suillaceae are a

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in the order

Boletales The Boletales are an order of Agaricomycetes containing over 1300 species with a diverse array of fruiting body types. The boletes are the best known members of this group, and until recently, the Boletales were thought to only contain boletes. ...

( suborder Suillineae), containing the boletus-like ''

Suillus ''Suillus'' is a genus of basidiomycete fungi in the family Suillaceae and order Boletales. Species in the genus are associated with trees in the pine family (Pinaceae), and are mostly distributed in temperate locations in the Northern Hemisphe ...

'', the small truffle-like '' Truncocolumella'', as well as the

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genus '' Psiloboletinus''. As of 2008, there are 54 species in the family. ''Gastrosuillus'', once considered a distinct genus, has been shown with molecular analysis to be a recent evolutionary derivative of ''Suillus''. ''Fuscoboletinus'', described by Pomerleau and

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in 1962, has also been subsumed into ''Suillus''.Kirk ''et al.'', p. 269.

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* Boletales Basidiomycota families {{Boletales-stub