Gyroporus purpurinus

 Gyroporus purpurinus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Gyroporaceae. Found in eastern North America, it was first described in 1936 by Wally Snell as a form of Boletus castaneus.[2] Snell and Rolf Singer transferred it to Gyroporus a decade later.[3] Neither of these publications were valid according to the rules of botanical nomenclature, which at the time mandated a description in Latin. In 2013, Roy Halling and Naveed Davoodian published the name validly.[4]

Gyroporus purpurinus
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Gyroporaceae
Genus:
Gyroporus
Species:
G. purpurinus
Binomial name
Gyroporus purpurinus
Singer ex Davoodian & Halling (2013)
Synonyms[1]
  • Boletus castaneus f. purpurinus Snell (1936)
  • Gyroporus purpurinus (Snell) Singer (1946)

The species is edible.[5]

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