Veloporphyrellus is a genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. Species are characterized by having a pinkish to pinkish-gray hymenophore, a membrane-like partial veil that hangs from the cap margin, smooth spores, and a trichoderm-like cap cuticle.[2]

Veloporphyrellus
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Veloporphyrellus
L.D.Gómez & Singer
Type species
Veloporphyrellus pantoleucus
L.D.Gómez & Singer (1984)
Species

V. africanus[1]
V. alpinus
V. conicus
V. gracilioides
V. pantoleucus
V. pseudovelatus
V. velatus
V. vulpinus

Species

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The genus, circumscribed in 1984,[3] contains eight species.[2]

Scientific nameTaxon authorYear
Veloporphyrellus africanusWatling1993
Veloporphyrellus alpinusY.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang2014
Veloporphyrellus conicus(Ravenel) B. Ortiz, Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang2014
Veloporphyrellus gracilioidesY.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang2016
Veloporphyrellus latisporusJ. Khan & S. Ullah2021
Veloporphyrellus pantoleucusL.D. Gómez & Singer1984
Veloporphyrellus pseudovelatusY.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang2014
Veloporphyrellus velatus(Rostr.) Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang2014
Veloporphyrellus vulpinusT.H.G. Pham, O.V. Morozova, A.V. Alexandrova & E.S. Popov2019

References

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  1. Watling R, Turnbull E (1992). "Boletes from South & East Central Africa – I". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 49 (3): 343–61. doi:10.1017/s0960428600000585.
  2. 1 2 Li Y-C, Ortiz-Santana B, Zeng N-K, Feng B, Yang ZL (2014). "Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Veloporphyrellus". Mycologia. 106 (2): 291–306. doi:10.3852/106.2.291. PMID 24782497.
  3. Singer R, Gómez LD (1984). "Veloporphyrellus, a new genus of Boletaceae from Costa Rica". Brenesia. 22: 293–4.