| Bothia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Boletaceae |
| Genus: | Bothia Halling, T.J.Baroni & Manfr.Binder (2007) |
| Type species | |
| Bothia castanella Halling, T.J.Baroni & Manfr.Binder (2007) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Boletinus castanellus Peck (1900) |
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Bothia is a genus of fungi in the Boletaceae family. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Bothia castanella, found in North America. Historically, B. castanella has been placed in seven different genera, before phylogenetic analysis reported in a 2007 publication determined that this species was genetically unique enough to deserve placement in a new genus. Its fruit body is chestnut brown, the cap is dry, and the underside of the cap has radially elongated tubes. The spore deposit is pale-brown. The fungus grows in association with oak trees (genus Quercus). Bothia is named in honor of mycologist Ernst E. Both, formerly curator emeritus of the Buffalo Museum of Science.[1]