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Chalciporus rubinellus

Chalciporus rubinellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Chalciporus
Species: C. rubinellus
Binomial name
Chalciporus rubinellus
(Peck) Singer
Synonyms
  • Boletus pseudorubinellus Peck (1879)
  • Suillus rubinellus (Peck) Singer (1945)
  • Tubiporus rubinellus (Peck) S. Imai (1968)

Chalciporus rubinellus, commonly known as the purple-red bolete, is a bolete fungus of the family Boletaceae. It was first described in 1879 as Boletus rubinellus, and later transferred to the genus Chalciporus in 1973.

Genetically it is closely related to Chalciporus amarellus.



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