Octaviania

Octaviania is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the family Boletaceae. The widespread genus is estimated to contain 15 species.^[2]

Octaviania
Octaviania asterosperma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Boletaceae
Genus:	Octaviania Vittad. (1831)[1]
Type species
Octaviania asterosperma Vittad. (1831)

The genus name honours of Vicenzo Ottaviani (1790–1853), an Italian doctor and mycologist and Professor of Medicine and Botany at University of Camerino.^[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Carlo Vittadini in 1831.^[1]

Species

As of September 2022^[update], Species Fungorum (via the Catalogue of Life database) accepts 48 species of Octaviana.^[4]

• Octaviania aculeatospora (Soehner) Svrček (1958)
• Octaviania arbucalensis Cabero & Faust.García (2013)^[5]
• Octaviania archeri Berk. (1859)
• Octaviania asahimontana Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania asterosperma Vittad. (1831)
• Ottaviania aurea Vittad. (1831)
• Octaviania borneensis Petri (1900)
• Octaviania brisbanensis (Berk. & Broome) G.Cunn. (1935)
• Octaviania celatifilia Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania ciqroensis Guzmán (1982)
• Octaviania cyanescens Trappe & Castellano (2000)
• Octaviania decimae Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania depauperata (Tul. & C.Tul.) J.M.Vidal, A.Paz & Lavoise (2014)
• Octaviania durianelloides Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania etchuensis Orihara (2012)
• Octaviania foetens Speg. (1917)
• Octaviania galatheia (Quél.) De Toni (1888)
• Octaviania glabra (Rodway) G.Cunn. (1935)
• Octaviania hesperi Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania hinsbyi (Rodway) G.Cunn. (1938)
• Octaviania japonimontana Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania kobayasii Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania lamingtonensis (J.W.Cribb) T.Lebel & Castellano (2002)
• Octaviania levispora Rodway (1924)
• Octaviania longiana S.Ahmad (1950)
• Octaviania macrospora Singer & A.H.Sm. (1961)
• Octaviania malaiensis(Corner & Hawker) Trappe, T.Lebel & Castellano (2002)
• Octaviania moravica Velen. (1947)
• Octaviania mortae Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania nigrescens J.W.Cribb (1958)
• Octaviania nonae Orihar (2011)
• Octaviania odoratissima Vittad. (1831)
• Octaviania olida Malençon & Astier (1993)
• Octaviania pallida (Lloyd) Lloyd (1922)
• Octaviania picea Velen. (1939)
• Octaviania plena J.W.Cribb (1958)
• Octaviania radicans Rick (1961)
• Octaviania radicata (J.W.Cribb) Pegler & T.W.K.Young (1979)
• Octaviania sarcomelas Vittad. (1931)
• Octaviania soderstromii (Lagerh.) Lloyd (1922)
• Octaviania stillingerii Lloyd (1922)
• Octaviania tasmanica (Kalchbr. ex Massee) Lloyd (1922)
• Octaviania vacekii A.Paz, J.M.Vidal, Lavoise, Læssøe, K.Killingmo, Molia & Handberg (2014)
• Octaviania yaeyamaensis Orihara (2011)
• Octaviania zelleri Orihara & M.E.Sm. (2011)