| Polyporoletus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Basidiomycetes |
| Order: | Russulales |
| Family: | Albatrellaceae |
| Genus: | Polyporoletus |
| Type species | |
| Polyporoletus sublividus Snell (1936) |
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| Species | |
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P. sublividus |
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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).'