Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
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profinite | Suillus albidipes |
subsumed by S. granulatus |
Jan. 30, 2023 08:04:14 +0000 | cooperj |
deactivated |
probably worth reading the comments here ...
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/OestZPilz_22_0211-0278.pdf
Doesn't that imply that the matter is not settled ... in a modern phylogenetics-based sense.
Correct me if wrong, but I believe that matter was settled. Nguyen et al (2016) found the North American "S. granulatus" was in another clade and proposed a different name:
https://cbs.umn.edu/sites/cbs.umn.edu/files/public/downloads/Nguyenetal2016c.pdf
This leaves S. albidipes as a subsumed synonym.
Suillus albidipes was described by Peck, and in association with Pinus strobus. It will be a North American indigenous taxon and therefore unlikley (but not impossible) to be the same as the modern concept of S. granulatus sensu stricto. That is implied under the comments on S. granulatus by Klofac when discussing Palm's description of S. neoalbidipes. Palm, back in 1984, considered the name S. albidipes had been widely misapplied (based on Singer & Smith I assume), and that might be true. However Palm's 1984 assertion that S. albidipes = S. granulatus cannot be endorsed without modern phylogenetic support, and that would seem unlikley. Indeed the Nguyen paper supports the view that North American taxa are different. It is a pity Nguyen et al did not say anything about Peck's taxon. So, in my opinion, the current status of the name S. albidipes remains uncertain. There are no iNat records, and I would simply make the name inactive, rather than creating an unproven and unlikely synonymy with S. granulatus.
Synonymized with S. granulatus in 1984:
https://doi.org/10.2307/3793324