Gyrodon tennesseensis

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Gyrodon tennesseensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Paxillaceae
Genus: Gyrodon
Species:
G. tennesseensis
Binomial name
Gyrodon tennesseensis
(Snell & A.H.Sm.) Snell & Hesler (1941)
Synonyms
  • Boletus tennesseensisSnell & A.H.Sm. (1940)

Gyrodon tennesseensis is a bolete fungus in the family Paxillaceae. It was originally described in 1940 by Wally Snell and Alexander H. Smith as a species of Boletus . [1] Snell and Hesler transferred it to Gyrodon a year later. [2] It is found in the United States and Canada. [3]

References

  1. Snell WH, Smith AH, Hesler LR (1940). "New species of Boleti from Cades Cove in the Great Smokies". Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. 56: 325–328.
  2. Snell WH. (1941). "The genera of the Boletaceae" . Mycologia. 33 (4): 415–423. doi:10.2307/3754896. JSTOR   3754896.
  3. McAlpine DF, Smith IM. Assessment of Species Diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone. NRC Research Press. p. 120. ISBN   978-0660198361.