Boletes have fruiting bodies like agarics in shape and texture, but their spores are produced inside pores or tubes. Many of the boletes are edible although little is known about our native species.
- Suillaceae
| Family: Boletaceae |
| Fungi:> Basidiomycota:> Agaricomycetes:> Boletales:> Boletaceae:> Austroboletus, Boletus, Boletellus, Chalciporus, Leccinum, Mucilopilus, Tylopilus, Xerocomus, Chamonixia. |
| Boletes have fruiting bodies like agarics in shape and texture, but their spores are produced inside pores or tubes. Many of the boletes are edible although little is known about our native species. | |
| Related Family's | |
| - Boletinellaceae - Suillaceae |
| Genus: Austroboletus |
 Austroboletus lacunosus |  Austroboletus niveus |  Austroboletus species |
| Genus: Boletus |
 Boletus leptospermi |  Boletus rawlingsii |  Boletus sp. |
| Genus: Boletellus |
 Boletellus ananas |
| Genus: Chalciporus |
 Chalciporus aurantiacus |  Chalciporus piperatus |
| Genus: Leccinum |
 Leccinum scabrum |
| Genus: Mucilopilus |
 Mucilopilus violaceiporus |
| Genus: Tylopilus |
 Tylopilus brunneus |  Tylopilus formosus |
| Genus: Xerocomus |
 Xerocomus macrobbii |  Xerocomus chrysenteron |  Xerocomus species |
| Sequestrate Fungi |
| These are fungi which have lost there ability to forceful eject their spores in stead they rely on insects or birds to eat them and cary off the spores for dispersal. Many are brightly coloured to attract birds and found on or partly buried in the ground. |
| Genus: Chamonixia |
 Chamonixia pachydermis |
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