Polypus

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]

Polypus
Scientific classification Edit this 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[1]
  • Polyporus dispansus Lloyd (1912)
  • Albatrellus dispansus (Lloyd) Canf. & Gilb. (1971)
  • Polyporus illudens Overh. (1941)

References
  1. "Polypus dispansus (Lloyd) Audet, Mycotaxon 111: 444 (2010)". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  2. Lloyd CG. (1912). "Synopsis of the stipitate Polyporoids". Mycological Writings. 7: 95–208 (see p. 192).
  3. 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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