Found in tropical Mexico, it was described as new to science by Mexican mycologist Laura Guzmán Dávalos in 2006.

[1] The species epithet cyanopalmicola refers to the blue-staining fruit bodies and the microscopic similarity to Gymnopilus palmicola.

[1] The fruit bodies of Gymnopilus cyanopalmicola have yellow, convex to plane caps 5 to 10 cm (2.0 to 3.9 in) in diameter, with fibrillose scales that are erect near the center and appressed near the margin.

[1] The verrucose spores are ellipsoid to oblong, amygdaliform, thick walled, and lack a germ pore and plague, but have a superhilar depression.

The hymenophoral trama is subparallel, clear to yellowish, with hyphae 3.4 - 14.7 μm in diameter and many refractive drops.

The scales are a trichoderm with septate hyphae 7.2 to 23.5 μm in diameter, with clamp connections and yellowish brown pigment encrusted in bands.