Gyrodon
Genus of fungi
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Gyrodon is a genus of pored mushroom bearing close affinity to the genus Paxillus. Recent molecular research has confirmed this relationship of the two genera as sister taxa, together diverging as one of the most basal lineages in the Boletineae, and sister to the Boletaceae.[3][4]
| Gyrodon | |
|---|---|
| |
| Gyrodon lividus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Paxillaceae |
| Genus: | Gyrodon Opat. (1836) |
| Type species | |
| Gyrodon sistotremoides Opat. (1836) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Gyrodon was circumscribed by German botanist Wilhelm Opatowski in 1836.[5]
Species
As of September 2015[update], Index Fungorum lists 13 species of Gyrodon.[6]
- Gyrodon adisianus — Brazil
- Gyrodon africanus
- Gyrodon bohemicus
- Gyrodon crassipes — Ethiopia
- Gyrodon cupreus
- Gyrodon housei
- Gyrodon intermedius — Africa, Madagascar
Gyrodon lividus — Type species, Europe- Gyrodon minutus — Asia
- Gyrodon miretipes — Burundi
- Gyrodon ripicola
- Gyrodon smotlachae
- Gyrodon rubellus
- Gyrodon tennesseensis — USA
