Xanthoconium purpureum

Xanthoconium purpureum is a species of bolete fungus in the genus Xanthoconium. It was described as new to science in 1962 by Wally Snell and Esther Dick in 1962.^[2] It is found in eastern North America, where it fruits under oak, sometimes in oak-pine forests.^[3]

Xanthoconium purpureum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Boletaceae
Genus:	Xanthoconium
Species:	X. purpureum
Binomial name
Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A.Dick (1962)
Synonyms[1]
Boletus purpureofuscus H.V.Sm. & A.H.Sm. (1973)

See also

• List of North American boletes