Suillus punctipes

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

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

TaxonomyEdit

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 distributionEdit

The bolete has been recorded from Taiwan.[5]

UsesEdit

The species is edible but very soft.[6]

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