Boletellus emodensis, commonly known as the shaggy cap, is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. It was described by English mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1851 as Boletus emodensis,[2] and transferred to Boletellus by Rolf Singer in 1942.[3] Characterised by a distinctive reddish shaggy cap, it grows in eucalypt woodlands. It produces a brown spore print, and has fusiform (spindle-shaped) spores that are 16–20 by 7–9 μm with longitudinal grooves. It is similar in appearance to Boletellus ananiceps, but the latter species is scaly rather than shaggy, has a pinkish tint, and lacks grooves in the spores.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Boletaceae |
| Genus: | Boletellus |
| Species: | B. emodensis
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References
edit- ^ "Boletellus emodensis (Berk.) Singer 1942". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ Berkeley MJ. (1851). "Decades of fungi. Decades XXXII, XXXIII. Sikkim Himalaya fungi, collected by Dr. J.D. Hooker". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. 3: 48.
- ^ Singer R. (1942). "Das System der Agaricales. II". Annales Mycologici. 40: 1–132 (see p. 19).
- ^ Young AM. (2005). A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press. pp. 187–8. ISBN 0-86840-742-9.