Gyrodon lividus | |
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Gyrodon lividus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Boletales |
Family: | Paxillaceae |
Genus: | Gyrodon |
Species: | G. lividus
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Binomial name | |
Gyrodon lividus | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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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.