Species
Xerocomellus chrysenteron (Red-cracking bolete)
Xerocomellus chrysenteron. Photo: (c) Petr Šíma, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Xerocomellus chrysenteron, formerly known as Boletus chrysenteron or Xerocomus chrysenteron, is a small, edible, wild mushroom in the family Boletaceae. These mushrooms have tubes and pores instead of gills beneath their caps. It is commonly known as the red cracking bolete.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Boletales (Boletes and allies)
- Family: Boletaceae (Boletes)
- Subfamily: Boletoideae
- Genus: Xerocomellus
- Species: Xerocomellus chrysenteron (Red-cracking bolete)
- Genus: Xerocomellus
- Subfamily: Boletoideae
- Family: Boletaceae (Boletes)
- Order: Boletales (Boletes and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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