Polypus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Russulales |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: |
Polypus Audet (2010) |
Type species | |
Polypus dispansus (Lloyd) Audet (2010) |
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Synonyms | |
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.