Albatrellus flettii, commonly known as the blue-capped polypore,[4] is a species of fungus in the family Albatrellaceae. It was originally described in 1941 by Elizabeth Eaton Morse as Polyporus flettii,[5] but this naming was invalid as it lacked a Latin description. Zdeněk Pouzar transferred it to Albatrellus in 1972. The species is found in western North America, where it grows on the ground in coniferous forests.[6]

Albatrellus flettii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Albatrellaceae
Genus: Albatrellus
Species:
A. flettii
Binomial name
Albatrellus flettii
Morse ex Pouzar (1972)
Synonyms[3]
  • Polyporus flettii Morse (1941)
  • Polypilus flettii (Morse ex Pouzar) Teixeira (1992)[1]
  • Albatrellopsis flettii (Morse ex Pouzar) Audet (2010)[2]

References edit

Albatrellus flettii
 Pores on hymenium
   Cap is convex or depressed
 Hymenium is decurrent
 Stipe is bare
 
Spore print is white
 Ecology is saprotrophic
 Edibility is edible
  1. ^ Teixeira AR. (1992). "New combinations and new names in the Polyporaceae". Revista Brasileira de Botânica. 15 (2): 125–7.
  2. ^ Audet S. (2010). "Essai de découpage systématique du genre Scutiger (Basidiomycota): Albatrellopsis, Albatrellus, Polyporoletus, Scutiger et description de six nouveaux genres". Mycotaxon (in French). 111: 431–64. doi:10.5248/111.431.
  3. ^ "Albatrellus flettii Morse ex Pouzar". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  4. ^ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
  5. ^ Morse EE. (1941). "A new polypore in Washington". Mycologia. 33 (5): 506–9. doi:10.2307/3754619. JSTOR 3754619.
  6. ^ Pouzar Z. (1972). "Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Albatrellus (Polyporaceae) I. A conspectus of species of the North Temperate Zone". Ceská Mykologie. 26 (4): 194–200.