Strobilomyces

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Genus of fungi

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| image = Strobilomyces floccopus JH.jpg | image_caption = Strobilomyces strobilaceus | taxon = Strobilomyces | authority = Berk. (1851) | type_species = Strobilomyces strobilaceus | type_species_authority = (Scop.) Berk. (1851) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = Eriocorys Quél. (1886)

Strobilomyces is a genus of boletes (mushrooms having a spongy mass of pores under the cap). The only well-known European species is the type species S. strobilaceus (also named S. floccopus), known in English as "old man of the woods".

Members of the genus can be distinguished by the following characteristics:

  • the cap and stipe are covered in soft hairy or woolly scales,
  • while most boletes have smooth elongated spores, those of Strobilomyces are roughly spherical and prominently ornamented, and
  • as might be expected from its "dry" fibrous appearance, it is resistant to decay (whereas most mushrooms in the Boletaceae are soft and decompose notoriously rapidly).

Taxonomy and classification

The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek word Strobilos (στρόβιλος), meaning "pine cone", a reference to the appearance of S. strobilaceus. The ending "-myces" is a standard suffix meaning "mushroom" (Ancient Greek: μύкης). In some older classification systems it is assigned to a separate family Strobilomycetaceae, but more recent phylogenetic evidence merges it into the larger family Boletaceae (suborder Boletineae).

Many more species have been discovered in warmer countries. The mycologist E. J. H. Corner described several new species from Malaysia including S. foveatus. According to recent estimates, about 40 species are known.

List of species

References

References

  1. [http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjb/1967/37.php McNabb R.F.R. (1967) The Strobilomycataceae of New Zealand] {{Webarchive. link. (2005-05-30 gives a history of the family.)
  2. These results corroborate older DNA analyses by K. Høiland (1987), which suggested that ''Strobilomyces'' is only distantly related to more familiar boletes such as ''[[Suillus]]'', but was in fact more closely related to the [[Scleroderma (genus). Earth Balls]] (''Scleroderma'').Høiland K. (1987). "A new approach to the [[phylogeny]] of the order Boletales (Basidiomycotina)". ''Nordic Journal of Botany'' '''7''': 705–718. See [http://folk.uio.no/klaush/boletale.htm this web page] for more details.
  3. Chen Chien-Ming 1994 [http://www.tesri.gov.tw/english/content/planet/pla_fungi_13.asp Novel and new records published by T.E.S.R.I] {{Webarchive. link. (2007-09-28 (Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute))
  4. Phillips, Roger. (2010). "Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America". Firefly Books.
  5. (2006). "Molecular systematics and biological diversification of Boletales". Mycologia.
  6. Chiu WF.. (1948). "The Boletes of Yunnan". Mycologia.
  7. Corner EJH.. (1972). "''Boletus'' in Malaysia". Government Printing Office/Botanic Gardens, Singapore.
  8. (2013). "''Strobilomyces echinocephalus'' sp nov (Boletales) from south-western China, and a key to the genus ''Strobilomyces'' worldwide". Mycological Progress.
  9. (2011). "Two species of ''Strobilomyces'' (Boletaceae, Boletales), ''S. seminudus'' and ''S. hongoi'' sp. nov. from Japan". Mycologia.
  10. "''Strobilomyces'' Berk. 1851". International Mycological Association.

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