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Paxillus vernalis

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Paxillus vernalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Paxillaceae
Genus: Paxillus
Species:
P. vernalis
Binomial name
Paxillus vernalis
Watling (1969)
Paxillus vernalis
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is depressed
Hymenium is decurrent
Stipe is bare
Spore print is brown
Ecology is mycorrhizal
Edibility is poisonous

Paxillus vernalis is a basidiomycete fungus found in montane forests in northern North America. It closely resembles the poisonous Paxillus involutus, and is considered likely to also be poisonous.[1] The fungus was described as new to science by Scottish mycologist Roy Watling in 1969.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
  2. ^ Watling R. (1969). "New fungi from Michigan". Notes from the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh. 29 (1): 59–66.
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