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Boletus satanas Lenz, 1831 (Devil’s Bolete)

BAP Species Tranche 1, Dec 1995
1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Rare
2007 (Draft) Red Data List Annex

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Boletus satanas Fruitbody 6 September 1975 East Sussex England 3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Marren, P., 1997 The Devil's Bolete, Boletus satanas Lenz
Marren, P., 2000 Surveying the Royal and Devil's Boletes
Mattock, G., 2003 Boletus satanas mycorrhizal with Helianthemum?
Roberts, J., 2006, Strobilomyces floccopus, Boletus satanas, Field Mycology, Vol 7(4): 131 (Colour photograph) Strobilomyces floccopus, Boletus satanas

General Works

Evans, S., 2003 (BAP species) Conservation Corner (April 2000)
Henrici, A., 2000 (fruiting with Common Rockrose (Helianthemum nummularium)) Notes and Records (July 2000)

Boletus satanas may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
BOLETALES
(spongecap taodstools and their relatives)
BOLETACEAE
(sponge cap toadstools)
Boletus
(a genus of boletes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Boletus satanas is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Helianthemum nummularium - Common Rockrose (Cistaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Questionable Mattock, G., 2003
Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Boletus satanas:

Boletus satanas may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
Boletus
(a genus of boletes)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Mattock, G., 2003 Boletus satanas mycorrhizal with Helianthemum?

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