{"id":11607,"date":"2025-06-23T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/?p=11607"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:30:49","slug":"2025-morphological-and-molecular-re-assessment-of-european-and-levantine-species-of-the-genus-hortiboletus-boletaceae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/2025-morphological-and-molecular-re-assessment-of-european-and-levantine-species-of-the-genus-hortiboletus-boletaceae\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 &#8211; Morphological and molecular re-assessment of European and Levantine species of the genus Hortiboletus (Boletaceae)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:50px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autors<\/strong>: Biketova AYu, Svetascheva TYu, Taylor AFS, Simonini G, Gelardi M, Morozova OV, Polemis E, Mu\u00f1oz JA, Albert L, Saitta S, Wasser SP, Nevo E, Zervakis GI, Vizzini A &amp; Dima B.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMA Fungus 16: e144731<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/imafungus.pensoft.net\/article\/144731\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOI:10.3897\/imafungus.16.144731<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keywords: Agaricomycetes, biogeography, Boletales, taxonomy, diversity, phylogeny, xerocomoid fungi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Hortiboletus<\/em> (the former <em>Xerocomus rubellus<\/em> species complex) is one of the most taxonomically critical and difficult genera for species identification in the family Boletaceae. Here, we provide a detailed morphological and molecular re-assessment of European and Levantine species of <em>Hortiboletus<\/em>. A new species, H. hershenzoniae, is described from Israel. It is sister to <em>H. engelii<\/em> and associated with the evergreen oak <em>Quercus calliprinos<\/em> and potentially also with <em>Q. ithaburensis<\/em>. Based on the sequence retrieved from INSDC, this species is also found in Lebanon. Accurate morphological descriptions, comprehensive sampling, type studies, biogeography, macro- and microphotographs and a historical overview on the nomenclatural issues surrounding <em>H. rubellus, H. bubalinus, H. engelii,<\/em> and <em>H. hershenzoniae<\/em> are given. An epitype collection is designated for <em>H. rubellus<\/em>. A key is provided for identification of the European and Levantine taxa. In addition, we propose a novel taxonomic combination <em>Hortiboletus flavorubellus<\/em>, which is conspecific with <em>Boletus rubellus<\/em> var. <em>flammeus<\/em>, based on the DNA barcoding and phylogenetic analysis of type material. <em>Boletus harrisonii<\/em> is also shown to be conspecific with <em>H. campestris<\/em>. A multilocus phylogenetic analysis of four markers (ITS, LSU, tef1-\u03b1, and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">rpb2) reveals that <em>Hortiboletus<\/em> is a sister genus to <em>Xerocomellus<\/em>. Using the Genealogical Concordance Phylogenetic Species Recognition method, at least 19 phylogenetic species and eight putative phylogenetic species of the genus <em>Hortiboletus<\/em> can be delimited. Based on multilocus analysis, it contains from 24 to 25 species-level clades worldwide, 17 out of which represent known species, one newly described and potentially six to seven undescribed species. Tandem repeat insertions within the ITS region (both in ITS1 and ITS2) are reported for the first time, not only in the genus <em>Hortiboletus<\/em>, but in the entire subfamily <em>Boletoideae<\/em>. Their identification and characterisation were based on Tandem Repeat Finder analysis and visual assessment of the ITS alignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-aligncenter\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-xlarge button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/392627677_Morphological_and_molecular_re-assessment_of_European_and_Levantine_species_of_the_genus_Hortiboletus_Boletaceae\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">DESCARGAR PDF<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-publicaciones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMAFungus-16.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9dTSQ-31d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11613,"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions\/11613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micologica-barakaldo.org\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}