Veloporphyrellus

Veloporphyrellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Veloporphyrellus
L.D.Gómez & Singer
Type species
Veloporphyrellus pantoleucus
L.D.Gómez & Singer (1984)
Species

V. africanus[1]
V. alpinus
V. conicus
V. pantoleucus
V. pseudovelatus
V. velatus

Veloporphyrellus is a genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. Species are characterized by having a pinkish to pinkish-gray hymenophore, a membrane-like partial veil that hangs from the cap margin, smooth spores, and a trichoderm-like cap cuticle.[2] The genus, circumscribed in 1984,[3] contains five species.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Watling R, Turnbull E (1992). "Boletes from South & East Central Africa – I". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 49: 343–61. doi:10.1017/s0960428600000585.
  2. 1 2 Li Y-C, Ortiz-Santana B, Zeng N-K, Feng B, Yang ZL (2014). "Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Veloporphyrellus". Mycologia. 106 (2): 291–306. doi:10.3852/106.2.291.
  3. ↑ Singer R, Gómez LD (1984). "Veloporphyrellus, a new genus of Boletaceae from Costa Rica". Brenesia. 22: 293–4.


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