Butyriboletus roseoflavus
Species of fungus
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Butyriboletus roseoflavus is a species of fungus in the genus Butyriboletus that is found in Asia. It was originally described in 2013 as a species of Boletus, but was transferred the following year to the newly created genus Butyriboletus.[1]
| Butyriboletus roseoflavus | |
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| Butyriboletus roseoflavus collected from Yunnan's Tianbishan Chengjiao Leisure Park. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Boletaceae |
| Genus: | Butyriboletus |
| Species: | B. roseoflavus |
| Binomial name | |
| Butyriboletus roseoflavus | |
| Synonyms | |
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| Butyriboletus roseoflavus | |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
 | Pores on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
 | Hymenium is adnate |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is olive-brown |
 | Ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | Edibility is unknown |
It is known as xiaomei niuganjun (Chinese: 小美牛肝菌; lit. 'little pretty bolete') or huamei niuganjun (Chinese: 华美牛肝菌; lit. 'fancy pretty bolete') in Yunnan and huandian niuganjun (Chinese: 黄靛牛肝菌; lit. 'yellow-cyan bolete') in Zhejiang. [2]
Edibility is unknown, but a mushroom identified as xiaomei niuganjun is implicated in a 2014 poisoning leading to delirium and lilliputian hallucinations.[3]