Xanthoconium

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Xanthoconium
Xanthoconium purpureum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Xanthoconium
Singer (1944)
Type species
Xanthoconium stramineum
(Murrill) Singer (1944)

Xanthoconium is a genus of fungi in the Boletaceae family. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution and contains seven species.[1]

The concept of Xanthoconium has been not fully described, but is clearly a separate genus, apart from Boletus.[2]

Species

  • Xanthoconium affine
  • Xanthoconium chattoogaense
  • Xanthoconium montaltoense
  • Xanthoconium montanum
  • Xanthoconium purpureum
  • Xanthoconium stramineum

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 735. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  2. Nuhn ME, Binder M, Taylor AFS, Halling RE, Hibbett DS. (2013). "Phylogenetic overview of the Boletineae". Fungal Biology 117 (7–8): 479–511. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2013.04.008. 

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