Leccinellum corsicum

Leccinellum corsicum is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae.

It grows in mycorrhizal symbiosis exclusively with rockroses (Cistus species) in Mediterranean Europe and North Africa.

[4] The fungus was originally described as new to science in 1896 by French mycologist Léon Louis Rolland as a species of Boletus.

Andreas Bresinsky and Manfred Binder transferred it to the newly circumscribed genus Leccinellum in 2003.

[5] The bolete is edible, and is especially appreciated in Portugal.