Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Family Gyroporaceae Rank Species | Division Basidiomycota | |
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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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