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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Russulales |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Polypus Audet (2010) |
| Species: | P. dispansus
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| Binomial name | |
| Polypus dispansus (Lloyd) Audet (2010)
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References
edit- ^ "Polypus dispansus (Lloyd) Audet, Mycotaxon 111: 444 (2010)". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ Lloyd CG. (1912). "Synopsis of the stipitate Polyporoids". Mycological Writings. 7: 95–208 (see p. 192).
- ^ Audet S. (2010). "Essai de découpage systématique du genre Scutiger (Basidiomycota): Albatrellopsis, Albatrellus, Polyporoletus, Scutiger et description de six nouveaux genres" [Essay on systematic cutting of the genus Scutiger (Basidiomycota): Albatrellopsis, Albatrellus, Polyporoletus, Scutiger and description of six new genera] (abstract). Mycotaxon (in French). 111: 431–464. doi:10.5248/111.431.
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