About Boletellus emodensis (Berk.) Singer
Boletellus emodensis, commonly called the shaggy cap, is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. English mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley first formally described this species in 1851 under the name Boletus emodensis. Rolf Singer later transferred the species to the genus Boletellus in 1942. This fungus is marked by its distinctive reddish shaggy cap, and grows in eucalypt woodlands. It produces a brown spore print, and has spindle-shaped (fusiform) spores that measure 16–20 by 7–9 μm, with longitudinal grooves. It looks similar to Boletellus ananiceps, but B. ananiceps has scales instead of shaggy texture, carries a pinkish tint, and does not have grooves on its spores.
