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Paxillus

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| image = Čechratka podvinutá 1.jpg

| image_caption = P. involutus

| taxon = Paxillus

| authority = Fr. (1835)

| type_species = Paxillus involutus

| type_species_authority = (Batsch) Fr. (1838)

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| synonyms = *Ruthea Opat. (1836)

| diversity = 36 species

| diversity_ref = {{cite web|accessdate=2024-11-22 |title=Paxillus {{!}} COL |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/63LCT |website=www.catalogueoflife.org}}

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Paxillus is a genus of mushrooms of which most are known to be poisonous or inedible. Species include Paxillus involutus and Paxillus vernalis. Two former species—Tapinella panuoides and Tapinella atrotomentosa—have now been transferred to the related genus Tapinella in the family TapinellaceaeBinder M, Hibbett DS. 2006. Molecular systematics and biological diversification of Boletales. Mycologia 98:971.

Binder M, Larsson KH, Matheny PB, Hibbett DS. 2010. Amylocorticiales ord. nov. and Jaapiales ord. nov.: Early diverging clades of Agaricomycetidae dominated by corticioid forms. Mycologia 102:865.

Paxillus means small stake.

Edibility

While this genus has in the past been erroneously considered edible, it is now known to be poisonous and has been linked to a number of recorded fatalities. The deadly poisonings appear to have been due to eating the mushrooms raw.

Species

{{As of|2018|October}}, Index Fungorum lists 38 valid species in Paxillus:

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References

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{{cite web |author=Kirk PM |title=Species Fungorum (version 26th May 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/66d4e4e430e234e69dc093a91371cba3 |accessdate=2015-05-23 |archive-date=2021-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214023359/https://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/66d4e4e430e234e69dc093a91371cba3 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite book |vauthors=Smith AH, Weber NS |title=The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide |publisher=University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |year=1980 |page=211 |isbn=978-0-472-85610-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYI4f6fqrfkC&pg=RA5-PA211}}

{{cite web |title=Paxillus Fr. 1835 |url=http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=18195 |publisher=International Mycological Association |work=MycoBank |accessdate=2011-07-01}}

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Category:Paxillaceae

Category:Boletales genera