Four Novel Species and Two New Records of Boletes from India

Repeated macrofungal explorations, followed by thorough examination of species through morphology and molecular phylogeny, have made it clear that European American names wild mushrooms were inadvertently misapplied quite often to Asian lookalikes mycologists/taxonomists in the past. Therefore, order reveal this mushroom treasure, recent years, taxonomical research on has been intensified countries, including India, undertaking a combined approach morpho-taxonomy multigene phylogeny. Boletoid (Boletaceae) are no exception. While working boletoid Indian Himalayas, authors recently came across six interesting mushrooms. In present communication, four novel species, namely Leccinellum binderi, Cyanoboletus paurianus, Xerocomus uttarakhandae, Xerocomellus himalayanus, established based phylogenetic estimations. Moreover, macroporus fraternus also reported here for first time India.