Gyroporus purpurinus
These boletes were so tiny and cute! The caps were nearly flat, slightly velvety, and purplish red.The pores were pale yellow and white and did not bruise. The stipes were dry, brittle, and similar in color to the caps.
Habitat: Growing on a sandy slope in a small patch in a mostly coniferous forest (ash, pine, hemlock, maple).
''Gyroporus purpurinus'' is a species of bolete fungus in the family Gyroporaceae. Found in eastern North America, it was first described in 1936 by Wally Snell as a form of ''Boletus castaneus''. Snell and Rolf Singer transferred it to ''Gyroporus'' a decade later. Neither of these publications were valid according to the rules of botanical nomenclature, which at the time mandated a description in Latin. In 2013, Roy Halling and Naveed Davoodian published the name validly.
