Crocinoboletus

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
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Boletaceae
Genus:
Crocinoboletus

N.K.Zeng, Zhu L.Yang & G.Wu (2014)
Type species
Crocinoboletus rufoaureus
(Massee) N.K.Zeng, Zhu L.Yang & G.Wu (2012)
Species

C. laetissimus
C. rufoaureus

References
  1. Zeng NK, Wu G, Li YC, Liang ZQ, Yang ZL. "Crocinoboletus, a new genus of Boletaceae (Boletales) with unusual boletocrocin polyene pigments". Phytotaxa. 175 (3): 133–140. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.175.3.2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. Massee GE. (1909). "Fungi exotici, IX". Bulletin of Miscellaneous Informations of the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. 1909: 204–9.


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