Pseudopiptoporus [SEP] parent taxon
Pseudopiptoporus
Pseudopiptoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It was circumscribed by Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden in 1980 with the type species "Pseudopiptoporus devians". This fungus was originally published as "Polyporus devians" by Giacomo Bresadola in 1920. "Pseudopiptoporus chocolatus" was added to the genus in 2003.
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of