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 are two other species in the genus, P. neotropicus Mata & Ryvarden (2007) and P. sylvestris (Overh. ex Pouzar) Audet, (2010)

References

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.