Polypus

Polypus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Russulales
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Polypus; Audet (2010)
Species:	P. dispansus
Binomial name
	Polypus dispansus; (Lloyd) Audet (2010)
Synonyms
	Polyporus dispansus Lloyd (1912); Albatrellus dispansus (Lloyd) Canf. & Gilb. (1971); Polyporus illudens Overh. (1941);

Polypus is a fungal genus of uncertain familial placement in the order Russulales. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Polypus dispansus, originally described by Curtis Gates Lloyd in 1912 as a species of Polyporus.^[2] Polypus was circumscribed by Serge Audet in 2010.^[3]

References[edit]

^ "Polypus dispansus (Lloyd) Audet, Mycotaxon 111: 444 (2010)". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
^ Lloyd CG. (1912). "Synopsis of the stipitate Polyporoids". Mycological Writings. 7: 95–208 (see p. 192).
^ Audet S. (2010). "Essai de découpage systématique du genre Scutiger (Basidiomycota): Albatrellopsis, Albatrellus, Polyporoletus, Scutiger et description de six nouveaux genres" [Essay on systematic cutting of the genus Scutiger (Basidiomycota): Albatrellopsis, Albatrellus, Polyporoletus, Scutiger and description of six new genera] (abstract). Mycotaxon (in French). 111: 431–464. doi:10.5248/111.431.

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