''Tylopilus badiceps'' is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to North America. It was described in 1900 as ''Boletus badiceps'' by

Charles Horton Peck Charles Horton Peck (March 30, 1833 – July 11, 1917) was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the New York State Botanist from 1867 to 1915, a period in which he described over 2,700 species of North American fun ...

, and transferred to the genus '' Tylopilus'' in 1971 by Alexander H. Smith and

Harry Delbert Thiers Harry Delbert Thiers (January 22, 1919 in Fort McKavett, Texas – August 8, 2000 in Ohio) was an American mycologist who studied and named many fungi native to North America, particularly California. Thiers taught mycology at San Francisco St ...

. It is a good

edible mushroom Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruit bodies of several species of macrofungi (fungi which bear fruiting structures that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye). They can appear either below ground (hypogeous) or above ground ...

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* badiceps Edible fungi Fungi described in 1900 Fungi of the United States Fungi without expected TNC conservation status Fungus species {{Boletales-stub

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