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Leccinum aurantiacum (Bull.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 646 (1821)

Leccinum quercinum sensu auct.
Boletus rufus Schaeff., Fung. bavar. palat. nasc. (Ratisbonae) 4: 75 (1774)
Boletus aurantiacus Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris): 320 (1791)
Boletus scaber var. aurantiacus (Bull.) Opat., Commentation Historico-Naturalis de Familia Fungorum Boletoideorum (Berolini): 34 (1836)
Krombholziella aurantiaca (Bull.) Maire, Publ. Inst. Bot. Barcelona 3(no. 4): 46 (1937)
Leccinum quercinum (Pilát) E.E. Green & Watling, Notes R. bot. Gdn Edinb. 25: 265 (1969)
Leccinum salicicola Watling, Notes R. bot. Gdn Edinb. 31: 139 (1971)
Krombholziella salicola (Watling) Šutara, Česká Mykol. 36(2): 82 (1982)
Krombholziella quercina (Pilát) Šutara, Česká Mykol. 36(2): 82 (1982)
Leccinum populinum M. Korhonen, Karstenia 35(2): 55 (1995)

Habitat: On soil in mixed deciduous woodland, heathland or dunes and associated with Betula, Fagus, Populus (including P. tremula), Quercus, Salix and Tilia.

Notes: Occasional but widespread. May be locally common and abundant, especially in southern regions. Current name for orange/brown-capped collections with initially brown stipe squamules and found with a broad range of broadleaved tree partners. The synonymy now includes the oak-associated species previously known in Britain as L. quercinum and the Salix repens associate L. salicola. However, the name can no longer be used for the pale-stiped taxon associated with poplars which is now known as L. albostipitatum.

Distribution: E: o, S: o, W: o, NI: o

Vouchers: England: K(M) 111215; Scotland: K(M) 111214; NI: K(M) 111213

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 210-211
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), as Leccinum rufum, p. 72, pl. 36
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 65
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), as Krombholziella aurantiaca, p. 41
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 2 2: 620 pp. (2000), p. 281
D+I:, in Lannoy, G. & Estades, A., Monographie des Leccinum D'Europe: 229 pp. (1995), p. 132, pl. 34

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