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Polypus

Polypus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Polypus
Audet (2010)
Type species
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.Polypus was circumscribed by Serge Audet in 2010.



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