Mycological outings to the Toussiambandogou, Dan, Mondon gallery forests and the Kou
Classified Forest in western Burkina Faso over the last five years have resulted in the collection of one
hundred and twenty (120) basidiomes of the Boletaceae family. They were dried and carefully preserved
in the mycotheque of the Phytopathology and Tropical Mycology team of the Life and Earth Sciences
Training and Research Unit (UFR/SVT) of the Joseph KI-ZERBO University. The various descriptions
carried out on the fresh samples and on the exsiccata. They allowed to divide the collection into twelve
genera (12), namely Afroboletus (4.17%), Boletus (18.33%), Boletellus (8.33%), Crocinoboletus (5%),
Hourangia (0.83%), Rubinoboletus (19.17%), Pulveroboletus (16.67%), Sotorius (2.50%), Suilus
(0.83%), Strobilomyces (2.50%), Tylopilus (6.67%) and Xerocomus (15%) and forty-nine (49) species
of which thirteen species are formally described. These results show that the Toussiambandougou
gallery forest has a good diversity of boletes, with a rate of 46.67%, followed by Dan (11.67%). The
Kou Classified Forest, despite its wealth of ectomycotrophic woody species and the extensive protection
afforded to it by the Ministry of the Environment, was one of the poorest biotopes in Boletaceae (3.33%).
This observation could be explained by the closure of the vegetation cover that does not allow good
aeration and also by the senescence of the plant species that make up this forest. The present study,
which is purely taxonomic, reveals the richness of Boletaceae in three gallery forests in the province of
Kenedougou and the Kou Classified Forest in the province of Houet in western Burkina Faso.

Diversity, Bolets, Identification, Forests