| Heliogaster | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Boletaceae |
| Genus: | Heliogaster Orihara & Iwase |
| Type species | |
| Heliogaster columellifer (Kobayasi) Orihara & Iwase |
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Heliogaster is a sequestrate genus of fungi in the Boletaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Heliogaster columellifer, found in Japan. The genus was first described in 2010, to accommodate the species formerly named Octaviania columellifera by Kobayasi in 1937.[1]