Family: Boletaceae

Fungi:> Basidiomycota:> Basidiomycetes:> Boletales:> Boletaceae:> Austroboletus, Boletus, Boletellus, Chalciporus, Leccinum, Mucilopilus, Tylopilus, Xerocomus, Chamonixia.

Boletes have fruiting bodies like agarics in shape and texture, but their spores are produced inside pores or tubes. Many of the boletes are edible.
	Related Family's
	- Boletinellaceae - Suillaceae

Genus: Austroboletus

Species: Austroboletus lacunosus (Kuntze) May & Wood
Common Name: None Found: Under leptospermum Substrate: Ground Spore: ?	Height: 200 mm Width: 80 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Species: Austroboletus niveus (G. Stev.) Wolfe
Common Name: None Found: Kauri, leptospermum Forest Substrate: Ground Spore: ?	Height: 150 mm Width: 80 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Species: Austroboletus species This fungus was one of two that keyed out to be Austroboletus niveus but at 3 times it size and with a brown cap I am left wounding if its a different species.
Common Name: None Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Ground Spore: ?	Height: 150 mm Width: 150 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Genus: Boletus

Species: Boletus leptospermi McNabb This fungi turns blue when damaged
Common Name: None Found: Leptospermum Bush Substrate: Ground Spore: ?	Height: 80 mm Width: 60 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Species: Boletus rawlingsii
Common Name: None Found: Leptospermum Bush Substrate: Ground Spore: ?	Height: 100 mm Width: 80 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Genus: Boletellus

Species: Boletellus ananas (M.A. Curtis) Murrill This fungi turns blue when damaged and is found growing from wood.
Common Name: None Found: Leptospermum Bush Substrate: Wood Spore: ?	Height: 70 mm Width: 40 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Genus: Chalciporus

Species: Chalciporus aurantiacus (McNabb) Pegler & T.W.K. Young
Common Name: None Found: Nothofagus Forests Substrate: Ground. Spore: ?	Height: 50 mm Width: 25 mm Season: Spring to summer Edible: No to small

Species: Chalciporus piperatus (Bull.) Bataille
Common Name: Peppery Bolete Found: Exotic forest - Pine Substrate: Ground Spore: Brown	Height: 60 mm Width: 30 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Yes

Genus: Leccinum

Species: Leccinum scabrum (Bull.) Gray
Common Name: Birch bolete Found: Under silver birch. Substrate: Ground Spore: Light brown	Height: 100 mm Width: 55 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Yes

Genus: Mucilopilus

Species: Mucilopilus violaceiporus (G. Stev.) Wolfe
Common Name: None Found: Under Leptospermum Substrate: Ground Spore: Light brown	Height: 90 mm Width: 50 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Genus: Tylopilus

Species: Tylopilus brunneus (McNabb) Wolfe
Common Name: None Found: Under leptospermum Substrate: On the ground. Spore: ?	Height: 80 mm Width: 50 mm Season: Late summer Edible: No

Species: Tylopilus formosus G. Stev.
Common Name: Dark Velvet Bolete Found: Under Leptospermum and Nothofagus Substrate: Ground Spore: Brown	Height: 100 mm Width: 80 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Genus: Xerocomus

Species: Xerocomus macrobbii
Common Name: None Found: Nothofagus Substrate: Ground Spore: Brown	Height: 60 mm Width: 35 mm Season: Late summer Edible: Unknown

Species: Xerocomus chrysenteron
Common Name: Red Cracking Bolete Found: Under Silver birch, Pine. Substrate: Ground Spore: Olivaceous brown	Height: 80 mm Width: 75 mm Season: Late summer Edible: Unknown

Unidentified
The fungi below are those that I have been unable to identify beyond there genus. This maybe due to me miss understanding the keys or a species that has not yet been described (named).

Species: Xerocomus species This species is very simlar to Xerocomus lentistipitatus which is were it keys to unfortunitly forest type and spores do not match.
Common Name: None Found: Under Leptospermum Substrate: Ground Spore: Brown	Height: 70 mm Width: 60 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Unknown

Sequestrate Fungi

Genus: Chamonixia

Species: Chamonixia pachydermis (Zeller & C.W. Dodge) G.W. Beaton. Often found half buried in soil in age it stains dark Blue/green with an unpleasant smell.
Common Name: Potato Fungus Found: Nothofagus Forests Substrate: Partly buried in ground Spores: Dark brown	Height: 40 mm Width: 50 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Unidentified
The fungi below are those that I have been unable to identify beyond there genus. This maybe due to me miss understanding the keys or a species that has not yet been described (named).

Species: Boletus sp. This keyed out to Boletus leptospermi but is unlikely to be this due to the wrong habitat. Found in grasslands under Oak
Common Name: None Found: Under Oak Substrate: Ground Spore: ?	Height: 80 mm Width: 40 mm Season: Late summer Edible: Unknown

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