Rubroboletus dupainii

Rubroboletus dupainii, commonly known as Dupain's bolete, is a bolete fungus of the genus Rubroboletus. It is native to Europe, where it is threatened, and red listed in six countries.^[4] It also occurs in North America, although it is rare there.^[5] It was first recorded from North Carolina, and then from Iowa in 2009.^[6] It was reported from Belize in 2007, growing under Quercus peduncularis - a species of oak tree.^[7]

Rubroboletus dupainii
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Boletaceae
Genus:	Rubroboletus
Species:	R. dupainii
Binomial name
Rubroboletus dupainii (Boud.) Kuan Zhao & Zhu L.Yang (2014)
Synonyms[2]
Boletus dupainii Boud. (1902) Tubiporus dupainii (Boud.) Maire (1937)[3]

Rubroboletus dupainii Mycological characteristics
	Pores on hymenium
	Cap is convex
	Hymenium is adnate
	Stipe is bare
	Spore print is olive-brown
	Ecology is mycorrhizal
	Edibility is unknown

The bolete was first described scientifically by French mycologist Jean Louis Émile Boudier in 1902.^[8] It was transferred to the new genus Rubroboletus in 2014 along with several other allied reddish colored, blue-staining bolete species.^[9] Phylogenetically, R. dupainii is the sister species of Rubroboletus lupinus.^[10]

See also

• List of North American boletes