Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Rank Species | Division Basidiomycota | |
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Similar Boletus subcaerulescens, Boletus vermiculosus, Boletus vermiculosoides, Boletus pallidus, Boletus subluridellus |
Boletus variipes is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae, native to North America. It was originally described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1888.

A 2010 paper analysing the genetic relationships within Boletus found that what was classified at the time as B. variipes was not monophyletic. Populations from east of the Rocky Mountains were sister to B. hiratsukae of Japan, with those from Central America and southeastern North America sister to that combined lineage. This required the latter group to be renamed. A third population—from the Philippines—that has been known as B. variipes was more distantly related.




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