Polypus
Genus of fungi
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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  | |
| 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] | |
