Rubroboletus

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Boletus satanas.JPG

| image_caption = Rubroboletus satanas

| taxon = Rubroboletus

| authority = Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang (2014)

| type_species = Rubroboletus sinicus

| type_species_authority = (W.F.Chiu) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang (2014)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

}}

Rubroboletus is a genus of bolete fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed by Chinese mycologists in 2014 with Rubroboletus sinicus as the type species. Species are characterized by having a reddish cap surface, yellow tubes on the underside of the cap, and an orange-red to blood-red pore surface. Pinkish to red spots (reticula) are present on the stipe surface, and a bluish color change occurs when the bolete flesh is injured. Rubroboletus mushrooms have an olive-brown spore print, and produce smooth spores. Eight species were included in the original circumscription (seven new combinations and one new species); five were added in 2015, and another in 2017.

Several species in this genus are poisonous or of completely unknown edibility. Although R. sinicus is sporadically sold in markets in Yunnan, China, it is suspected of being poisonous; further studies are need.

Species

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ImageNameYearEdibilityDistribution
|Rubroboletus demonensis Vasquez, Simonini, Svetash., Mikšík & Vizzini

|2017

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|Southern Europe

120pxRubroboletus dupainii {{small|(Boud.) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014

(1902)

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North Carolina, and then from Iowa, Europe
120pxRubroboletus eastwoodiae {{small|(Murrill) D.Arora, C.F.Schwarz & J.L.Frank}}2015

(1910)

|20px

West Coast of the United States
Rubroboletus esculentus {{small|Zhao, K., Zhao, H.M.}}201720pxSichuan Province in southwestern China
120pxRubroboletus haematinus {{small|(Halling) D.Arora & J.L.Frank}}2015

(1976)

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western United States
Rubroboletus latisporus {{small|Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014China (Yunnan)
120pxRubroboletus legaliae {{small|(Pilát & Dermek) Della Maggiora & Trassinelli}}2015

(1969)

|20px

Southern England, and Europe
120pxRubroboletus lupinus {{small|(Fr.) Costanzo, Gelardi, Simonini & Vizzini}}2015

(1838)

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Europe Mediterranean
120pxRubroboletus pulcherrimus {{small|(Thiers & Halling) D.Arora, N.Siegel & J.L.Frank}}2015

(1976)

|20px

United States (New Mexico and California to Washington)
Rubroboletus pulchrotinctus {{small|(Alessio) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014

(1985)

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central and southern Europe.
120pxRubroboletus rhodosanguineus {{small|(Both) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014

(1998)

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North America.
120pxRubroboletus rhodoxanthus {{small|(Krombh.) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014

¨(1836)

|20px

southern Europe
120pxRubroboletus rubrosanguineus {{small|(Cheype) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014

(1983)

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eastern Europe, east to the Caucasus
120pxRubroboletus satanas {{small|(Lenz) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014

(1831)

|20px

Europe
120pxRubroboletus sinicus {{small|(W.F.Chiu) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang}}2014

(1948)

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China.

References

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{{cite journal |author=Frank JL. |title=Nomenclatural novelties |journal=Index Fungorum |issue=248 |date=June 11, 2015 |url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/Publications/Index%20Fungorum%20no.248.pdf}}

{{cite journal |author=Della Maggiora M. |title=Nomenclatural novelties |journal=Index Fungorum |issue=246 |date=June 10, 2015 |url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/Publications/Index%20Fungorum%20no.246.pdf}}

{{cite journal |author=Vizzini A. |title=Nomenclatural novelties |journal=Index Fungorum |issue=233 |date=March 24, 2015 |url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/Publications/Index%20Fungorum%20no.233.pdf}}

{{cite journal |vauthors=Zhao K, Wu G, Yang ZL |title=A new genus, Rubroboletus, to accommodate Boletus sinicus and its allies |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=188 |issue=2 |pages=61–77 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.188.2.1}}

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