Boletus
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See also: boletus
Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin boletus (“porcini (mushroom)”).
Proper noun[edit]
Boletus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Boletaceae – boletes.
Usage notes[edit]
- Formerly included all mushrooms with pores
- Current circumscription is paraphyletic, including many hundreds of mushrooms
- A monophyletic grouping, Boletus sect. Boletus, contains about a hundred species
Hypernyms[edit]
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Fungi – kingdom; Dikarya – subkingdom; Basidiomycota – phylum; Agaricomycotina - subphylum; Agaricomycetes - class; Agaricomycetidae - subclass; Boletales - order; Boletaceae - family
Hyponyms[edit]
- (genus): Boletus edulis - type species; Boletus pinophilus, Boletus retuculatus, Boletus separans and Boletus aereus - selected other species; for other species see
List of Boletus species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia and Boletus at MycoBank
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Boletus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Boletus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Boletus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Boletus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Boletus at Encyclopedia of Life
- Boletus at MycoBank
