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Boletus kermesinus

species of fungus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ4939351 ↗
Source-derived summary

Boletus kermesinus is a species of bolete fungus. The fruit bodies are dark red with a sticky cap, and have a reticulate stem. Newly described in 2011, the fungus is known only from central Honshu, Japan, where it grows in subalpine coniferous forests.

See also

List of Boletus species

References

External links

Boletus kermesinus in Index Fungorum.

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This entry incorporates text from “Boletus kermesinus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.