Leccinum boreale

Leccinum boreale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Boletaceae
Genus:	Leccinum
Species:	L. boreale
Binomial name
	Leccinum boreale; A.H.Sm., Thiers & Watling (1966)

Leccinum boreale is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. The bolete was described as new to science in 1966 by mycologists Alexander H. Smith, Harry Delbert Thiers, and Roy Watling.^[1]

A motion in legislature proposed to make this the official fungus of Alberta in 2009.^[2]

References[]

^ Smith AH, Thiers HD, Watling R (1966). "A preliminary account of the North American species of Leccinum, section Leccinum". The Michigan Botanist. 5: 159.
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