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Xanthoconium purpureum
Scientific classification
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
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. It is found in eastern North America, where it fruits under oak, sometimes in oak-pine forests.

See also

• List of North American boletes

References

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.

External links

• Xanthoconium purpureum in Index Fungorum

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