| Gyroporus purpurinus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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] | |
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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]
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The species is edible. [5]
