Taxon Details: Neoboletus Gelardi, Simonini & Vizzini in Vizzini
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Family:

Boletaceae (Basidiomycota)
Scientific Name:

Neoboletus Gelardi, Simonini & Vizzini in Vizzini
Primary Citation:

Nomenclatural novelties.
Index Fungorum 192: 1. 2014
Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.
Description:

Diagnosis: Basidiomata stipitate-pileate with tubular hymenophore, epigeal, evelate. Pileus convex to applanate, bay-brown, date-brown,olive-brown, reddish-brown to blood red, ochraceous or yellow, opaque, dry, velvety to subtomentose. Context firm, pale yellow to bright yellow, quickly turning dark blue when injured or exposed. Hymenophore tubulose, adnate or slightly depressed, with tubes yellow to olivaceous-brown,with pores reddish-orange, blood red to reddish-brown, yellowish-orange or yellow. Stipe central, solid, yellowish, ornamented by conspicuous reddish to reddish-brown or yellow punctuations throughout or at least in the upper part, sometimes reticulate, with or without strigose base. Spores olive-brown in deposit, smooth, subfusiform to ellipsoidal to ellipsoidal-fusoid. Cystidia present. Pileipellis a subparallel or interwoven trichoderm tending to a cutis. Clamp connections absent.

Registration number: IF 550769

Type species: Boletus luridiformis Rostk., in Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. 3 Abt. (Pilze Deutschl.) 5: 105. 1844.

Ectomycorrhiza: Presumed with Pinaceae, Fagaceae.

Distribution: East Asia, Europe, N America.

Number of species: Nine, Neoboletus brunneissimus, N. junquilleus, N luridiformis, N. magnificus, N. pseudosulphureus, N. sinensis, N. thibetanus, N. venenatus, N. xanthopus.

Commentary: Phylogenetic inference: Clade 37 of Wu et al. (2014).