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Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-02
Page range: 208–218
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Diversity of Gyroporus (Gyroporaceae, Boletales): rpb2 phylogeny and three new species

National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.
Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium Fédération Wallonie–Bruxelles, Service Général de l’Enseignement Universitaire et de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium Center of Excellence in Fungal Research and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Macaulay Honors College at Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, USA
Wertheim Conservatory, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium
Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Tottori Mycological Institute, Tottori-shi, Tottori, Japan
National Museum of Natural History, Sorbonne University, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, USA
biogeography boletes ectomycorrhizal fungi edibility human-mediated range expansion taxonomy 3 new species Fungi

Abstract

Three new species of Gyroporus, one from the southern hemisphere (Gyroporus madagascariensis sp. nov.) and two from the northern hemisphere (Gyroporus borealis sp. nov. and Gyroporus smithii sp. nov.), are described. G. madagascariensis is a brownish bolete currently known from Madagascar; it has a mottled pileus somewhat reminiscent of G. mcnabbii, another species known from the southern hemisphere. G. borealis is known from the northeastern United States and is also recorded from the northwestern United States under planted landscape trees. G. smithii corresponds to an orange-colored species that has often been encountered in the United States west and south of the Appalachian Mountains (east of the Great Plains) and is likely often mistaken for G. borealis, which can display orange coloration. Additionally, this study presents evidence that G. roseialbus Murrill and G. subalbellus Murrill, previously synonymized by Rolf Singer, are in fact distinct species.