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Heliogaster

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Boletaceae

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Boletales

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Rossbeevera, Octaviania, Afroboletus, Borofutus, Fistulinella

Heliogaster is a sequestrate genus of fungi in the Boletaceae family. 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.

References

Heliogaster Wikipedia