''Gyrodon'' is a
genus
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of pored
mushroom
A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing Sporocarp (fungi), fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or another food source. ''Toadstool'' generally refers to a poisonous mushroom.
The standard for the n ...
bearing close affinity to the genus ''
Paxillus
''Paxillus'' is a genus of mushrooms of which most are known to be poisonous mushroom, poisonous or inedible. Species include ''Paxillus involutus'' and ''Paxillus vernalis''. Two former species—''Tapinella panuoides'' and ''Tapinella atrotomen ...
''. 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''
**''Me ...
, and sister to the
Boletaceae
The Boletaceae are a Family (biology), family of mushroom-forming fungi, primarily characterised by small pores on the spore-bearing hymenium, hymenial surface (at the underside of the mushroom), instead of Lamella (mycology), gills as are found ...
.
[
''Gyrodon'' was ]circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by German botanist Wilhelm Opatowski in 1836.[
]
Species
, Index Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partners along with Landcare Research and th ...
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 nea ...
''
References
Paxillaceae
Boletales genera
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