Polyporoletus

Polyporoletus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Russulales
Family:
Albatrellaceae
Genus:
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).

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Snell 1936 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Singer 1945 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ryvarden 1986 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).