Polypus

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]
Polyporus dispansus Lloyd (1912) Albatrellus dispansus (Lloyd) Canf. & Gilb. (1971) Polyporus illudens Overh. (1941)