Leccinellum corsicum

 Leccinellum corsicum is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It grows in mycorrhizal symbiosis exclusively with rockroses (Cistus species) in Mediterranean Europe and North Africa.[4] The fungus was originally described as new to science in 1896 by French mycologist Léon Louis Rolland as a species of Boletus. Andreas Bresinsky and Manfred Binder transferred it to the newly circumscribed genus Leccinellum in 2003.[5]

Leccinellum corsicum
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Boletaceae
Genus:
Leccinellum
Species:
L. corsicum
Binomial name
Leccinellum corsicum
(Rolland) Bresinsky & Manfr.Binder (2003)
Synonyms[3]
  • Boletus corsicus Rolland (1896)
  • Leccinum corsicum (Rolland) Singer (1967)[1]
  • Leccinum crocipodium var. corsicum (Rolland) Bertault (1980)[2]
  • Krombholziella corsica (Rolland) Alessio (1985)

The bolete is edible, and is especially appreciated in Portugal.[6]

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 Metasyntactic variable, which is released under the 
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