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Boletus regineus Arora & Simonini
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- Scientific name
- Boletus regineus
- Author
- Arora & Simonini
- Common names
Queen Bolete - IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Boletales
- Family
- Boletaceae
- Assessment status
- Published
- Assessment date
- 2021-02-01
- IUCN Red List Category
- LC
- Assessors
- Siegel, N.
- Reviewers
- Mueller, G.M.
Assessment Notes
The content on this page is fetched from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/195923149/195928214
Justification
Boletus regineus is a locally common bolete which is widespread in hardwood forests of California and Oregon, USA. This species is edible and is often collected for food by foragers, but there is no reported evidence of decline and no significant threats have been identified. It is listed as Least Concern (LC).Taxonomic notes
For many years this species was identified as the European species Boletus aereus (Thiers 1975, Arora 1986, Bessette et al. 2000). It was formally described as a distinct species, Boletus regineus, based on a California type collection (Arora 2008).Geographic range
This species is locally common in coastal and Coast Range forest throughout northern California, and the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range foothills. It is rare in southern California, occurring south to at least Santa Barbara County. There are also scattered records throughout the lower elevations in the eastern parts of the Coast Range, Willamette Valley, and Cascade Range in Oregon, and at low elevation (and often urban) areas in Washington, USA.Population and Trends
The population is widespread in western North American, and no decline has been observed.
Population Trend: stable
