Rossbeevera
Genus of fungi
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Rossbeevera is a genus of sequestrate (truffle-like) fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was first published in 2012 under the erroneous name Rosbeeva,[1] but was corrected to Rossbeevera in the same issue.[2] The genus was created to contain species formerly placed in Chamonixia, but characterized by having ellipsoid to spindle-shaped spores with 3–5 longitudinal ridges, bluish-green to deep blue fruit body staining reaction, and a thin whitish peridium. The Chinese species R. yunnanensis is the earliest diverging lineage within the genus, and has a close phylogenetic relationship with the bolete genera Turmalinea and Leccinellum.[3][4]
| Rossbeevera | |
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| Sectioned Rossbeevera fruit body found in New South Wales, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Boletaceae |
| Genus: | Rossbeevera T.Lebel & Orihara (2012) |
| Type species | |
| Rossbeevera pachyderma | |
| Species | |
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The genus name Rossbeevera honours Ross Beever (1946–2010), a New Zealand botanist and mycologist.[5]
Species
As of April 2023[update], Index Fungorum lists the following species in Rossbeevera:
| Image | Name | Taxon Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
_Figure_3.jpg) | Rossbeevera bispora | (B.C. Zhang & Y.N. Yu) T. Lebel & Orihara | 2012 |
| Rossbeevera cryptocyanea | Orihara | 2016 | |
| Rossbeevera eucyanea | Orihara | 2012 | |
_Figure_4.jpg) | Rossbeevera griseobrunnea | Iqbal Hosen & T.H. Li | 2019 |
| Rossbeevera griseovelutina | Orihara | 2012 | |
| Rossbeevera mucosa | (Petri) T. Lebel, Orihara & N. Maek. | 2012 | |
| Rossbeevera paracyanea | Orihara | 2015 | |
| Rossbeevera vittatispora | (G.W. Beaton, Pegler & T.W.K. Young) T. Lebel | 2012 | |
| Rossbeevera westraliensis | T. Lebel, Orihara & N. Maek. | 2012 | |
| Rossbeevera yunnanensis | Orihara & M.E. Sm. | 2012 |
