| Author | Watling, R., Hills, A.E, & Turnbull, E. |
| Year | 2005 |
| Title | Boletes and their allies |
| ISBN | 1 872291 89 |
| Series | British Fungus Flora |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | All the British species of "tubulate" boletes (ie excluding hypogeous, resupinate or agaricoid forms) recognised at the time. |
| Source | British Fungus Flora, Vol 1, Revised and enlarged edition edition, 173pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh |
| Illustrations | Line drawings at the back |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Starts with an update to the classification, showing the name changes, new taxa and current classification. This is followed by the key to genera and then the families and genera with generic keys to species, each followed by the detailed species accounts. Line drawings are at the back. An Ecological List of Species groups the species by life-style and host. Includes a copy of the BFF colour chart. [ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ] |
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | Boletus key, p14, couplet 5: beware *B. legaliae* (couplet 7) only turns sky blue not intensely blue so would key to *B. satanas*. |
| News | New updated edition published 2005. |
| Examine |  with x8 or x10 hand lens ( Compound Microscope is also useful) |
| Specimen Preparation | Cut fresh material for flesh colour changes; microscopy of cap cuticle, flesh, spores etc required in some groups. |
| Identification difficulty | Mostly straightforward, although careful microscopy needed in sg Xerocomus |
