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Crocinoboletus rufoaureus | |
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Genus: | Crocinoboletus N.K.Zeng, Zhu L.Yang & G.Wu (2014)
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Crocinoboletus rufoaureus (
Massee) N.K.Zeng, Zhu L.Yang & G.Wu (2012)
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Crocinoboletus is a fungal genus in the family Boletaceae. Circumscribed in 2014, it contains two species: Crocinoboletus laetissimus, and the type, C. rufoaureus. [1] This latter bolete was originally described by George Edward Massee in 1909 from collections made in Singapore. [2] The genus is readily characterized by bright orange fruitbodies that readily stain blue-olive when injured, and smooth spores. The cap cuticle is made of a trichoderm (a cellular arrangement wherein the outermost hyphae emerge roughly parallel, like hairs, perpendicular to the cap surface) in the middle part of the cap, and a cutis (where hyphae run parallel to the cap surface) at the cap margin. The intense orange color of the fruitbodies is caused by boletocrocin pigments. [1]
Crocinoboletus | |
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Crocinoboletus rufoaureus | |
Scientific classification | |
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Class: | |
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Family: | |
Genus: | Crocinoboletus N.K.Zeng, Zhu L.Yang & G.Wu (2014)
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Type species | |
Crocinoboletus rufoaureus (
Massee) N.K.Zeng, Zhu L.Yang & G.Wu (2012)
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Species | |
Crocinoboletus is a fungal genus in the family Boletaceae. Circumscribed in 2014, it contains two species: Crocinoboletus laetissimus, and the type, C. rufoaureus. [1] This latter bolete was originally described by George Edward Massee in 1909 from collections made in Singapore. [2] The genus is readily characterized by bright orange fruitbodies that readily stain blue-olive when injured, and smooth spores. The cap cuticle is made of a trichoderm (a cellular arrangement wherein the outermost hyphae emerge roughly parallel, like hairs, perpendicular to the cap surface) in the middle part of the cap, and a cutis (where hyphae run parallel to the cap surface) at the cap margin. The intense orange color of the fruitbodies is caused by boletocrocin pigments. [1]