Austroboletus

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Austroboletus
Austroboletus eburneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Austroboletus
(Corner) Wolfe (1980)
Type species
Austroboletus dictyotus
(Boedijn) Wolfe (1980)
Synonyms
  • Boletus subgen. Austroboletus Corner (1972)

Austroboletus is a genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. The widely distributed genus contains species that form mycorrhizal relationships with plants.

Taxonomy

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E. J. H. Corner originally defined Austroboletus as a subgenus of Boletus in his 1972 work Boletus in Malaysia, before it was raised to genus level in 1979 by mycologist Carl B. Wolfe.[1] The type species is Austroboletus dictyotus, a fungus originally described by Karel Bernard Boedijn in 1960 as a member of the genus Porphyrellus.[2] The generic name Austroboletus means "southern bolete".[3]

In a 2014 molecular genetics study, Wu and colleagues defined 22 clades within the Boletaceae. They found the genus as understood to be polyphyletic – composed of two distinct lineages. One with pitted stipes, which remained as Austroboletus, while those with smoother stipes were moved to Veloporphyrellus. They delineated a subfamily Austroboletoideae, which contained genera with pitted spores, including Austroboletus, Fistulinella, Mucilopilus and Veloporphyrellus. These genera were notable in the family in that their fruit bodies generally do not change colour when bruised.[4]

Description

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Although they resemble other boletes macroscopically, Austroboletus is differentiated microscopically with spores that are pitted, rather than smooth.[5] The spore colour ranges from lilac- or pinkish-brown to wine-coloured.[6] The pores and tubes are whitish.[4] Members of the genus have a distinctive stipe marked by a coarse reticulate or lacunar (pitted) pattern—most prominent in species native to the western Pacific.[6] The caps are usually dry when young, and sometimes sticky in maturity, with a surface texture ranging from smooth to tomentose to scaly. Microscopically, Austroboletus lacks clamp connections in the hyphae, and the presence of pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia (cystidia on the pore face and edge, respectively) is variable.[7]

Habitat, distribution, and ecology

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Members of the genus are found mainly in the tropics, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia in the southern hemisphere and Japan and North America in the Northern Hemisphere.[6] Two species are found in North America: A. gracilis and A. subflavidus.[3] The majority of Austroboletus species form mycorrhizal relationships with plant species.[4]

Species

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As of December 2023, Index Fungorum lists 38 valid species in the genus Austroboletus.[8]

Image Scientific name Taxon author Year Distribution
A. albidus Yan C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2021 China (Jiangxi)
A. albovirescens Yan C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2021 China
A. amazonicus A.M. Vasco-Pal. & C. López-Quint. 2014 Colombia
A. appendiculatus Semwal, D. Chakr., K. Das, Indoliya, D. Chakrabarty, S. Adhikari & Karun. 2017 India
A. asper K. Syme, Bonito, T. Lebel, Fechner & Halling 2020 Queensland
A. austrovirens N.A. Fechner, Bougher, Bonito & Halling 2017 Queensland
A. brunneisquamus N.K. Zeng, Chang Xu & S. Jiang 2021 China
A. cornalinus (Perr.-Bertr. & R.Heim) E.Horak 1980 Gabon
A. dictyotus (Boedijn) Wolfe 1980 China (Hunan)
A. eburneus Watling & N.M.Greg. 1986 Queensland
A. festivus (Singer) Wolfe 1980 Brazil
A. fusisporus (Kawam. ex Imazeki & Hongo) Wolfe 1980 China (Yunnan)
A. graciliaffinis Singer 1988 north of Brazil and in Colombia and Venezuela
A. gracilis (Peck) Wolfe 1980 Mexico to Costa Rica
A. heterospermus (R.Heim & Perr.-Bertr.) Singer 1983
Error creating thumbnail: A. lacunosus (Kuntze) T.W.May & A.E.Wood 1995 Australia, New caledonia and New Zealand
A. latitubulosus E.Horak 1980 Papua New Guinea
A. malaccensis (Pat. & C.F.Baker) Wolfe 1980
A. mucosus (Corner) Wolfe 1980
File:Austroboletus mutabilis by Ray Palmer 2.jpg A. mutabilis Halling, Osmundson & M.A. Neves 2006 northern Australia
File:Austroboletus neotropicalis 5754331.jpg A. neotropicalis Singer, J.García & L.D.Gómez 1991 Costa Rica
File:Austroboletus occidentalis Watling & N.M. Greg. by Gerhard Koller.jpg A. occidentalis Watling & N.M.Greg. 1986 Australia and southeastern Tasmania
A. olivaceobrunneus Yan C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2021 China
A. olivaceoglutinosus K.Das & Dentinger 2015 India (Sikkim), China (Yunnan)
A. olivaceus Singer 1983
A. purpurascens (Heinem.) E.Horak 1980 Zaire
File:Austroboletus rarus (Corner) E. Horak 323381.jpg A. rarus (Corner) E.Horak 1980 Singapore and Australia
A. rionegrensis (Singer & I.J.Araujo) Singer 1983 Brazil.
File:Austroboletus roseialbus 577509.jpg A. roseialbus N.A. Fechner, Bonito, T. Lebel & Halling 2017 eastern New South Wales
File:2021-07-24 Austroboletus rostrupii (Syd. & P. Syd.) E. Horak 1356943.jpg A. rostrupii (Syd. & P.Syd.) E.Horak 1980 Thailand, Singapore
A. rubiicolor (Corner) E.Horak 1980 Singapore
A. schichianus (Teng & L.Ling) E.Horak 1980 China
File:Austroboletus subflavidus 436542.jpg A. subflavidus (Murrill) Wolfe 1980 United States(New Jersey to Florida and Texas) and Central America
File:Austroboletus subvirens オオヤシャイグチ PA029721.jpg A. subvirens (Hongo) Wolfe 1980 Japan, Papua New Guinea
A. trinitatensis Wolfe 1988
File:Austroboletus tristis (Pat. & C.F.Baker) Wolfe2.jpg A. tristis (Pat. & C.F.Baker) Wolfe 1980
A. viscidoviridis N.A. Fechner, Bonito, T. Lebel & Halling 2017 Queensland
A. yourkae F.E. Guard, McMull.-Fish., Van Wyk, T. Lebel & Halling 2021 Queensland

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