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).

Polyporoletus
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Polyporoletus

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

P. sublividus
P. neotropicus

References

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  1. ^ Snell WH. (1936). "Notes on boletes. V." Mycologia. 28 (5): 463–75. doi:10.2307/3754120.
  2. ^ Singer R, Snell WH, White WL (1945). "The taxonomic position of Polyporus sublividus". Mycologia. 37 (1): 124–8. doi:10.2307/3754855.
  3. ^ Ryvarden L, Gilbertson RL (1986). North American Polypores. Oslo, Norway: Fungiflora. ISBN 0-945345-06-2.