Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Family Boletaceae Rank Species | Division Basidiomycota Order Boletales Genus Rubroboletus | |
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Similar Rubroboletus dupainii, Imperator torosus, Rubroboletus rhodoxanthus, Rubroboletus legaliae, Imperator rhodopurpureus | ||
Rubroboletus lupinus, commonly known as the wolf bolete, is a bolete fungus of the genus Rubroboletus. Originally described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1838 as species of Boletus, in 2015 it was transferred to Rubroboletus, a genus circumscribed the year previously to contain other allied reddish colored, blue-staining bolete species.
Elias Magnus Fries described the wolf bolete as Boletus lupinus in 1838. Its species name is derived from the Latin lupus "wolf".
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