- Proposed
- Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Strobilomyces brunneolepidotus Har. Takah. & Taneyama
- Scientific name
- Strobilomyces brunneolepidotus
- Author
- Har. Takah. & Taneyama
- 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
- Olga Morozova
- Assessors
- Susana P. Cunha, Hannah Wheatcroft
- Comments etc.
- Olga Morozova, Anders Dahlberg
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
Strobilomyces brunneolepidotus Har. Takah. & Taneyama, in Takahashi, Taneyama, Kobayashi, Oba, Hadano, Hadano, Kurogi & Wada, The fungal flora in southwestern Japan, Agarics and boletes 1: 303 (2016)
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Quite a remarkable species, easily identified in a field. Despite its wide distribution, it is rather rare throughout the entire distribution area.
Geographic range
This species was originally described from Japan in the Okinawa Prefecture (Takahashi et al. 2016), and has also been found in China (Yunnan, Guangdong, and Fujian Provinces), Taiwan, and Vietnam (Han et al. 2020, Pham and Morozova 2020).
Population and Trends
The species is known from a single locality in Japan (Okinawa Prefecture), four localities in Taiwan (Taipei), four localities in China (Yunnan, Guangdong, and Fujian Provinces), and a single locality in Vietnam (Khanh Hoa). Therefore, there are approximately 10 known localities.
There are thought to be 50-100x unknown localities, as the species is fairly inconspicuous, occurs in quite widespread broadleaf forest habitat, and across four countries.
Population Trend:
Habitat and Ecology
The species grows on soil in upper montane mossy evergreen broadleaf forest
