Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A. Dick
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Xanthoconium purpureum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Xanthoconium
Species:
X. purpureum
Binomial name
Xanthoconium purpureum
Snell & E.A.Dick (1962)
Synonyms[1]
  • Boletus purpureofuscus H.V.Sm. & A.H.Sm. (1973)

Xanthoconium purpureum is a species of bolete fungus in the genus Xanthoconium. It was described as new to science in 1962 by Wally Snell and Esther Dick in 1962.[2] It is found in eastern North America, where it fruits under oak, sometimes in oak-pine forests.[3]

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  1. ^ "GSD Species Synonymy:Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A. Dick". Species Fungorum. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  2. ^ Snell WH, Dick EA (1962). "Notes on boletes. XIV". Mycologia. 53 (3): 228–236. doi:10.2307/3756270.
  3. ^ Bessette AR, Bessette A, Roody WC (2000). North American Boletes: A Color Guide to the Fleshy Pored Mushrooms. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. pp. 278–279. ISBN 978-0-8156-0588-1.
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