Heliogaster is a sequestrate genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Heliogaster columellifer, found in Japan. The genus was first described in 2010, to accommodate the species formerly named Octaviania columellifera by Kobayasi in 1937.[1]

Heliogaster
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Heliogaster

Orihara & Iwase
Type species
Heliogaster columellifer
(Kobayasi) Orihara & Iwase

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  1. ^ Orihara T; Sawada F; Ikeda S; Yamato M; Tanaka C; Shimomura N; Hashiya M. Iwase K. (2010). "Taxonomic reconsideration of a sequestrate fungus, Octaviania columellifera, with the proposal of a new genus, Heliogaster, and its phylogenetic relationships in the Boletales". Mycologia. 102 (1): 108–121. doi:10.3852/08-168. PMID 20120234. S2CID 8109767.