Neoboletus luridiformis [SEP] parent taxon
Neoboletus luridiformis
Neoboletus luridiformis, known until 2014 as Boletus luridiformis, is a fungus of the bolete family, all of which produce mushrooms with tubes and pores beneath their caps. It is found in Northern Europe and North America, and is commonly known as the scarletina bolete. Although edible when cooked, it can cause gastric upset when raw and can be confused where the two species coincide with the poisonous "Rubroboletus satanas", which has a paler cap.
Taxonomy.
"Boletus luridiformis" was originally described by
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of