Truncocolumella

Truncocolumella is a genus of fungi in the family Suillaceae, of the order Boletales.[1] It was circumscribed by American mycologist Sanford Myron Zeller in 1939.[2] The potato-like T. citrina is edible.[3]

Truncocolumella
Truncocolumella citrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Suillaceae
Genus:
Truncocolumella

Zeller (1939)
Type species
Truncocolumella citrina
Zeller (1939)
Species

T. citrina
T. occidentalis
T. rubra

References
  1. Binder M, Hibbett DS (2006). "Molecular systematics and biological diversification of Boletales". Mycologia. 98 (6): 971–981. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.971. PMID 17486973.
  2. Zeller SM (1939). "New and noteworthy Gasteromycetes". Mycologia. 31 (1): 1–31. doi:10.2307/3754429.
  3. Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.


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