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Tylopilus

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Taxonomy

The genus was first defined by Petter Adolf Karsten in 1881. The type species, Tylopilus felleus, was originally described in 1788 as a species of Boletus by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard. Tylopilus means "bumpy or swollen pileus", from the Greek tylos "bump" and pilos "hat".

Molecular analysis indicates the genus, like other large genera within the Boletales, is polyphyletic. A lineage of Tylopilus chromapes (now Harrya chromapes and related species) has been shown to be only distantly related to other members of Tylopilus. Hence T. chromapes is now the type species of the new genus Harrya and, related to it, several Australian species moved to Australopilus. T. valens was also moved to its own genus, Pseudoaustroboletus.

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