Strobilomyces
Strobilomyces is a genus of boletes (mushrooms having a spongy mass of pores under the cap). The only well-known European species is the type species S. strobilaceus (also named S. floccopus), known in English as old man of the woods.
Members of the genus can be distinguished by the following characteristics:
- the cap and stipe are covered in soft hairy or woolly scales,
- while most boletes have smooth elongated spores, those of Strobilomyces are roughly spherical and prominently ornamented, and
- as might be expected from its "dry" fibrous appearance, it is resistant to decay (whereas most mushrooms in the Boletaceae are soft and decompose notoriously rapidly).
Taxonomy and classification
The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek word Strobilos (στρόβιλος), meaning "pine cone", a reference to the appearance of S. strobilaceus. The ending "-myces" is a standard suffix meaning "mushroom" (Ancient Greek: μύкης). In some older classification systems it is assigned to a separate family Strobilomycetaceae [2], but more recent phylogenetic evidence merges it into the larger family Boletaceae (suborder Boletineae).[3] These results corroborate older DNA analyses by K. Høiland (1987), which suggested that Strobilomyces is only distantly related to more familiar boletes such as Suillus, but was in fact more closely related to the Earth Balls (Scleroderma).[4]
Many more species have come to light from warmer countries. The mycologist E. J. H. Corner described several new species from Malaysia including S. mirandus [5].
List of species
- Strobilomyces alpinus - (Yunnan province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces ananaeceps
- Strobilomyces annamiticus
- Strobilomyces annulatus - (Malaysia)
- Strobilomyces areolatus
- Strobilomyces atrosquamosus
- Strobilomyces benoisii
- Strobilomyces camphoratus
- Strobilomyces coccineus
- Strobilomyces confusus - (East Asia, North America) [6]
- Strobilomyces coturnix - (Madagascar)
- Strobilomyces dryophilus - (United States)
- Strobilomyces echinatus
- Strobilomyces excavatus
- Strobilomyces fasciculatus
- Strobilomyces foveatus - (Malaysia)
- Strobilomyces fusisporus
- Strobilomyces giganteus - (Sichuan province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces gilbertianus - (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Strobilomyces glabellus - (Yunnan province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces glabriceps
- Strobilomyces hongoi - Japan
- Strobilomyces hydriensis
- Strobilomyces immutabilis - (Madagascar)
- Strobilomyces indica
- Strobilomyces kalimpongensis
- Strobilomyces latirimosus - (Guangxi province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces ligulatus
- Strobilomyces mirandus - (Malaysia)
- Strobilomyces mollis - (Malaysia)
- Strobilomyces montosus
- Strobilomyces nigricans - (East Asia, North America) [6]
- Strobilomyces pallescens
- Strobilomyces paradoxus
- Strobilomyces parvirimosus - (Yunnan province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces pauper - (Brazil)
- Strobilomyces polypyramis - (Malaysia)
- Strobilomyces porphyrius
- Strobilomyces retisporus
- Strobilomyces rufescens
- Strobilomyces sanmingensis
- Strobilomyces seminudus - (Ōtsu, Japan)
- Strobilomyces strobilaceus = S. floccopus - (North America, Europe)
- Strobilomyces subnigricans - (Hubei province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces subnudus - (Jiangsu province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces velutinus - (Yunnan province, Mainland China)
- Strobilomyces velutipes - (Malaysia)
References
External links
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