Suillus punctipes

Suillus punctipes, commonly known as the spicy suillus, is a bolete fungus in the family Suillaceae.

Suillus punctipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Suillaceae
Genus:
Suillus
Species:
S. punctipes
Binomial name
Suillus punctipes
(Peck) Singer (1945)
Synonyms[1]
  • Boletus punctipes Peck (1878)
  • Ixocomus punctipes (Peck) Singer (1942)[2]

Taxonomy

The fungus was originally described in 1878 by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck as a species of Boletus. Collected from Gansevoort, New York, Peck described its distinguishing features as "its rhubarb-colored stem thickened at the base and the brownish color of the young hymenium".[3] Rolf Singer transferred it to Suillus in 1945.[4]

Habitat and distribution

The bolete has been recorded from Taiwan.[5]

Uses

The species is edible but very soft.[6]

See also

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Suillus punctipes (Peck) Singer". CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  2. Singer R. (1942). Das System der Agaricales. II. Annales Mycologici. 40. p. 30.
  3. Peck CH. (1879). "Report of the Botanist (1878)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. 32: 17–72 (see p. 32).
  4. Singer R. (1945). "The Boletineae of Florida with notes on extralimital species. II. The Boletaceae (Gyroporoideae)". Farlowia (2 ed.). Weinheim: Cramer. 2: 223–303 (see p. 277).
  5. Yeh K-W, Chen Z-C. (1980). "The boletes of Taiwan" (PDF). Taiwania. 25 (1): 166–184.
  6. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.