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Boletus billieae Both, Bessette & W.J. Neill
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- Scientific name
- Boletus billieae
- Author
- Both, Bessette & W.J. Neill
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Boletales
- Family
- Boletaceae
- Assessment status
- Under Assessment
- Proposed by
- Todd Osmundson
- Assessors
- Todd Osmundson
- Contributors
- Noah Siegel
- Comments etc.
- Anders Dahlberg
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
This species is known only from pitch pine–scrub oak forests on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and may be endemic to this area.
Geographic range
Known only from Cape Cod, Masachusetts, USA.
Population and Trends
Population Trend:
Habitat and Ecology
This species is found in pitch pine–scrub oak (Pinus rigida–Quercus ilicifolia) forests, where it is presumably an ectomycorrhizal symbiont of one or both tree species.
Threats
Conservation Actions
Research needed
Use and Trade
Bibliography
Bessette, A.R., A.E. Bessette, and W.J. Neill. 2001. Mushrooms of Cape Cod and the National Seashore. pp. 32-33.
