Biology:Polypus

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Polypus
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Incertae sedis/Russulales
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)

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

Wikidata ☰ Q40303321 entry