Boletus bainiugan is a species of porcini-like fungus native to Henan, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in Central and Southwestern China, where it grows under Pinus yunnanensis, Pinus kesiya and Castanea mollissima.[2] It is closely related to Boletus reticulatus.[1]

Boletus bainiugan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Boletus
Species:
B. bainiugan
Binomial name
Boletus bainiugan
Dentinger 2013
Synonyms
  • B. meiweiniuganjun Dentinger[1]

The epithet bainiugan is the Hanyu Pinyin transcription of the fungus's Mandarin name, 白牛肝 "white porcini". The other epithet meiweiniuganjun likewise is a transcription of 美味牛肝菌 "delicious porcini", a name originally used to translate the epithet of Boletus edulis.

References

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  1. ^ a b Cui, Yang-Yang; Feng, Bang; Wu, Gang; Xu, Jianping; Yang, Zhu L. (November 2016). "Porcini mushrooms (Boletus sect. Boletus) from China" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 81 (1): 189–212. doi:10.1007/s13225-015-0336-7. S2CID 12866685.
  2. ^ Gallardi, Matteo (2020). "Diversity, Biogeographic Distribution, Ecology, and Ectomycorrhizal Relationships of the Edible Porcini Mushrooms (Boletus s. str., Boletaceae) Worldwide: State of the Art and an Annotated Checklist". In Pérez-Moreno, Jesús; Guerin-Laguette, Alexis; Arzú, Roberto Flores; Yu, Fu-Qiang (eds.). Mushrooms, Humans and Nature in a Changing World: Perspectives from Ecological, Agricultural and Social Sciences. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p. 227. ISBN 978-3-030-37378-8.