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Gyroporus purpurinus

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Gyroporaceae

Rank
  
Species

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Boletales

Genus
  
Gyroporus

Gyroporus purpurinus

Similar
  
Gyroporus subalbellus, Gyroporus, Caloboletus inedulis, Gymnopilus flavidellus, Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus

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. Snell and Rolf Singer transferred it to Gyroporus a decade later. 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.

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Gyroporus purpurinus Wikipedia