Taxon Details: Xerocomellus Šutara
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Family:

Boletaceae (Basidiomycota)
Scientific Name:

Xerocomellus Šutara
Primary Citation:

Xerocomus s.l. in the light of the present state of knowledge.
Czech Mycology 60: 44. 2008
Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.
Description:

Diagnosis: Pileus dry, matte, neither viscid nor sticky when moist, glabrous, velutinous or pruinose, usually without a distinct fibrillose aspect when young, becoming subtomentose with age, often cracking with age and then areolate-rimose. Pileipellis a palisadoderm. Hymenophore adnate or shallowly depressed or sometimes subdecurrent, yellow to olive bropwn, cyanescent or not, with angular pores. Tube trama intermediate (boletoid-phylloporoid). Stipe minutely granulose, sometimes longitudinally striate but mostly non-reticulate. Lateral stipe stratum usually absent or quite reduced. Spores smooth or longitudinally striate/veined. Hymenial cystidia present. Clamp connections absent.

Registration number: MB 511890

Type species: Boletus chrysenteron Bull., Hist. Champ. p. 328. 1791..

Ectomycorrhiza: Presumed with Pinaceae, Fagaceae, Betulaceae, Nothofagaceae, Myrtaceae, Casuarinaceae, caesalpinoid legumes.

Distribution: North Temperate, montane Neotropics, northern South America, East Asia, SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa.