Boletus variipes

Boletus variipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Boletus
Species: B. variipes
Binomial name
Boletus variipes
Peck (1888)

Boletus variipes is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae, native to North America. It was originally described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1888.[1]

A 2010 paper analysing the genetic relationships within Boletus found that what was classified at the time as B. variipes was not monophyletic. Populations from east of the Rocky Mountains were sister to B. hiratsukae of Japan, with those from Central America and southeastern North America sister to that combined lineage. This required the latter group to be renamed. A third population—from the Philippines—that has been known as B. variipes was more distantly related.[2]

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References

  1. Peck CH. (1888). "Report of the Botanist (1887)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History 41: 51–122 (see p. 76).
  2. Dentinger BT, Ammirati JF, Both EE, Desjardin DE, Halling RE, Henkel TW, Moreau PA, Nagasawa E, Soytong K, Taylor AF, Watling R, Moncalvo JM, McLaughlin DJ. (2010). "Molecular phylogenetics of porcini mushrooms (Boletus section Boletus)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57: 1276–92. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.10.004. PMID 20970511.

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