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Phlebopus Boletes
1 species
Heim 1936 (as a subgenus of Boletus), raised to genus by Singer in 1936. A genus of mainly tropical, large, brown boletes in the Boletinellaceae. Species are described as saprobic, and some may form mycorrhizae under certain conditions. P. portentosus is cultivated in China.
Fruit body: boletoid, often large, cap brown to olive. Tubes: short. Spores: yellow-brown. Cystidia: absent in some species.
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