Xanthoconium

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Xanthoconium
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Xanthoconium purpureum
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Xanthoconium
Singer (1944)
Type species
Xanthoconium stramineum
(Murrill) Singer (1944)

Xanthoconium is a genus of bolete fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1944, who included Boletus affinis and what was then known as Gyroporus stramineus as the type species. These two species were part of the "strange group of species described by Murrill and Snell as white-spored Gyropori, and separated by the latter under the new generic name Leucogyroporus." [1] C.B. Wolfe described three species from the United States in 1987: X. chattoogaense , Xanthoconium montaltoense , and X. montanum . [2] As of February 2015, the nomenclatural database Index Fungorum list seven species in Xanthoconium. [3]

The concept of Xanthoconium has been not fully described using molecular phylogenetic analysis, but it is clearly a distinct genus, apart from Boletus . [4] However, Xanthoconium separans was found to be more closely related to Boletus Sensu stricto than to Xanthoconium. [4]

Species

ImageScientific nameTaxon authorYearDistribution
Xanthoconium affine (Peck) Singer 635704 2016-07-13.jpg Xanthoconium affine (Peck) Singer1944hardwood forests east of the Rocky Mountains, and in Mexico
Xanthoconium chattoogaense Wolfe1987Known only from the type locality, along a tributary of the Chattooga River in North Carolina. [2]
Xanthoconium fusciceps N.K. Zeng, Zhi Q. Liang & S. Jiang2017China
Xanthoconium montaltoense Wolfe1987Found in south-central Pennsylvania. [2]
Xanthoconium montanum Wolfe1987Found in Macon County, North Carolina, in Nantahala National Forest. [2]
Xanthoconium porophyllum G. Wu & Zhu L. Yang2016China
Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A. Dick 638486.jpg Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A.Dick1962eastern North America
Xanthoconium separans (Peck) Halling & Both 908614.jpg Xanthoconium separans (Peck) Halling & Both1998South Eastern United States
Xanthoconium sinense G. Wu, Y.Y. Cui & Zhu L. Yang2016China
Xanthoconium stramineum 251818.jpg Xanthoconium stramineum (Murrill) Singer1944eastern North America

References

  1. Singer R. (1944). "New genera of fungi. I" . Mycologia. 36 (4): 358–68. doi:10.2307/3754752. JSTOR   3754752.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wolfe CB Jr. (1987). "Studies in the genus Xanthoconium (Boletaceae). I. New species and a new combination". Canadian Journal of Botany. 65 (10): 2142–6. doi:10.1139/b87-295.
  3. Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 15th February 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 Nuhn ME, Binder M, Taylor AFS, Halling RE, Hibbett DS (2013). "Phylogenetic overview of the Boletineae". Fungal Biology. 117 (7–8): 479–511. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2013.04.008. PMID   23931115.