Boletus bainiugan explained

Boletus bainiugan is a species of porcini-like fungus native to Henan, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in Central and Southwestern China, where it grows under Pinus yunnanensis, Pinus kesiya and Castanea mollissima.^[1] It is closely related to Boletus reticulatus.

The epithet bainiugan is the Hanyu Pinyin transcription of the fungus's Mandarin name, Chinese: 白牛肝 "white porcini". The other epithet meiweiniuganjun likewise is a transcription of Chinese: 美味牛肝菌 "delicious porcini", a name originally used to translate the epithet of Boletus edulis.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gallardi . Matteo . Mushrooms, Humans and Nature in a Changing World: Perspectives from Ecological, Agricultural and Social Sciences . Pérez-Moreno, Jesús . Guerin-Laguette, Alexis . Arzú, Roberto Flores . Yu, Fu-Qiang . 2020 . Springer . Cham, Switzerland . 978-3-030-37378-8 . 227 . https://books.google.com/books?id=M3DgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA237 . Diversity, Biogeographic Distribution, Ecology, and Ectomycorrhizal Relationships of the Edible Porcini Mushrooms (Boletus s. str., Boletaceae) Worldwide: State of the Art and an Annotated Checklist.