A natural product with the unusual naphtho[1,8-bc]pyrandione chromophore is badion A 1, the brown pigment of the cap cuticle of the bay boletus. 1 is derived biogenetically from a trihydroxypulvinic acid present in the fungus.
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Steffan et al. (1984) studied this question.