Gyrodon

Taxobox | name = Gyrodon
regnum = Fungi


image_caption = "Gyrodon lividus"
phylum = Basidiomycota
classis = Basidiomycetes
ordo = Boletales
familia = Paxillaceae
genus = "Gyrodon"
genus_authority =

"Gyrodon" is a genus of pored mushroom bearing close affinity to the genus "Paxillus". Recent molecular research has confirmed this relationship of the two genera as sister groups, together lying near the base of a tree from which the genus "Boletus" arises. [cite journal |author=Kretzer A, Bruns TD |year=1999 |title=Use of atp6 in fungal phylogenetics: an example from the Boletales |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=483–92 |id= |url=http://plantbio.berkeley.edu/~bruns/ftp/kretzer1999.pdf|format=PDF |accessdate=2008-03-11 |doi=10.1006/mpev.1999.0680]

Species include "Gyrodon lividus" of Europe, and "G. merulioides" of North America.

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