| Boletellus emodensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Boletaceae |
| Genus: | Boletellus |
| Species: | B. emodensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Boletellus emodensis (Berk.) Singer (1942) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Boletus emodensis Berk. (1851) |
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Boletellus emodensis, commonly known as the shaggy cap, is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. It was described by English mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1851 as Boletus emodensis,[2] and transferred to Boletellus by Rolf Singer in 1942.[3] Characterised by a distinctive reddish shaggy cap, it grows in Eucalypt woodlands. It produces a brown spore print, and has fusiform (spindle-shaped) spores that are 16–20 by 7–9 μm with longitudinal grooves. It is similar in appearance to Boletellus ananiceps, but the latter species is scaly rather than shaggy, has a pinkish tint, and lacks grooves in the spores.[4]