Taxonomy and Naming
Boletus bicolor was originally named in 1807 by the Italian botanist Giuseppe Raddi. American mycologist Charles Horton Peck named a species collected in Sandlake, New York, in 1870, Boletus bicolor. Although this naming is considered illegitimate due to article 53.1 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Peck is still given as the authority in the Bessette et al. (2000) monograph of North American boletes. In 1909 a species found in Singapore was named Boletus bicolor by George Edward Massee; this naming is illegitimate and the species described is now known as Boletochaete bicolor. The botanical name for the two-colored bolete is derived from the Latin words bōlētus, meaning "mushroom", and bicolor, meaning "having two colors."
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