Tylopilus rubrobrunneus, commonly known as the reddish brown bitter bolete, [1] is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It was first described scientifically in 1967 by Samuel J. Mazzer and Alexander H. Smith from collections made in Michigan. It is found in the United States;[2] the bolete was reported from a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana) forest in Hidalgo, Mexico in 2010.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Boletaceae |
| Genus: | Tylopilus |
| Species: | T. rubrobrunneus
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| Tylopilus rubrobrunneus Mazzer & A.H.Sm. (1967)
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The species is inedible and very bitter in taste.[4]
See also
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edit- ^ Roody WC. (2003). Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. p. 340. ISBN 0-8131-9039-8.
- ^ Mazzer SJ, Smith AH. (1967). "New and interesting boletes from Michigan". The Michigan Botanist. 6: 57–67.
- ^ Rodríguez-Ramírez EC, Moreno CE. (2010). "Bolete diversity in two relict forests of the Mexican beech (Fagus grandifolia var. mexicana; Fagaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 97 (5): 893–898. doi:10.3732/ajb.0900284. PMID 21622453.
- ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
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