Biology:Polyporoletus

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Polyporoletus
2012-07-12 Polyporoletus sublividus Snell 236757.jpg
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Polyporoletus

Snell (1936)
Type species
Polyporoletus sublividus
Snell (1936)
Species

P. sublividus
P. neotropicus

Polyporoletus is a genus of fungi in the family Albatrellaceae. The genus was first described by mycologist Walter H. Snell in 1936 to accommodate an unusual terrestrial polypore with a stipe that had been found in the ground in pine-oak woods in Fentress County, Tennessee .[1] He named this specimen Polyporoletus sublividus; the generic name refers to the possible relationship to both the boletes and the polypores. Although this species would be later transferred to the genus Scutiger,[2] it is now considered to be Polyporoletus.[3] Currently there is only one other species in the genus, P. neotropicus Mata & Ryvarden (2007).

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7226859 entry