Gyrodon lividus

Gyrodon lividus
Gyrodon lividus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Paxillaceae
Genus: Gyrodon
Species:
G. lividus
Binomial name
Gyrodon lividus
(Bull.) Sacc. (1888)
Synonyms[1]
  • Boletus lividus Bull. (1791)
  • Boletus sistotrema Fr. (1815)
  • Boletus sistotremoides Fr. (1815)
  • Boletus chrysenteron var. lividus (Bull.) Mérat (1821)
  • Boletus brachyporus Pers. (1825)
  • Gyrodon sistotremoides (Fr.) Opat. (1836)
  • Boletus rubescens Trog (1839)
  • Boletus lividus var. alneti Lindgr. (1874)
  • Uloporus lividus (Bull.) Quél. (1886)
Gyrodon lividus
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Pores on hymenium
Cap is flat
Hymenium is decurrent
Stipe is bare
Spore print is olive to brown
Ecology is mycorrhizal
Edibility is edible

Gyrodon lividus, commonly known as the alder bolete, is a pored mushroom bearing close affinity to the genus Paxillus. Although found predominantly in Europe, where it grows in a mycorrhizal association with alder, it has also recorded from China, Japan and California. Fruit bodies are distinguished from other boletes by decurrent bright yellow pores that turn blue-grey on bruising. G. lividus mushrooms are edible.

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