''Gyrodon'' is a
genus
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of pored
mushroom
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bearing close affinity to the genus ''
Paxillus
''Paxillus'' is a genus of mushrooms of which most are known to be poisonous or inedible. Species include '' Paxillus involutus'' and '' Paxillus vernalis''. Two former species—''Tapinella panuoides'' and ''Tapinella atrotomentosa''—have now ...
''. Recent
molecular
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research has confirmed this relationship of the two genera as
sister
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taxa, together diverging as one of the most
basal lineages in the
Boletineae
The Boletineae are a suborder of the fungal order Boletales. Families in the Boletineae include the Boletaceae and the Paxillaceae.
Taxa
*Paxillaceae
**'' Alpova''
**'' Austrogaster''
**'' Gyrodon''
**'' Hydnomerulius''
**'' Meiorganum''
**'' ...
, and sister to the
Boletaceae
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.
[
''Gyrodon'' was ]circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by German botanist Wilhelm Opatowski
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in 1836.[
]
Species
, Index Fungorum
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lists 13 species of ''Gyrodon''.
See also
*''Boletinellus merulioides
''Boletinellus merulioides'', commonly known as the ash-tree bolete, is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletinellaceae . Described as new to science in 1832, it is found in Asia and eastern North America, where it grows on the ground ne ...
''
References
Paxillaceae
Boletales genera
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