Dryad Saddle name change???? (possible)

[Betula]

I've recently seen Polyporus squamosus being referred to as Cerioporus squamosus. Has there been a name change or does it have another name that I didn't know about? Or has someone got it wrong and I've fallen for it?!

[David Humphries]

Wiki has it listed as Cerioporus squamosus and says its been named so since 1886

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerioporus_squamosus

 

 

The British Mycology Society lists its taxonomy here....

 

Species data - British fungi

 

Polyporus squamosus (Huds.) Fr., Syst. mycol. 1: 343 (1821)

 

Polyporus squamosus f. erectus anon.

Boletus juglandis Schaeff., Fung. Bavar. Palat. 2: 101 (1763)

Boletus testaceus With., Bot. arr. veg. 2: 770 (1776)

Boletus cellulosus Lightf., Fl. Scot. 2: 1032 (1777)

Boletus squamosus Huds., Fl. Angl. Edn 2 2: 626 (1778)

Boletus rangiferinus Bolton, Hist. fung. Halifax 3: 138 (1789)

Grifola platypora Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 643 (1821)

Polyporus rostkovii Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol.: 439 (1838)

 

 

I haven't heard of any name change, so I stick with Polyporus squamosus

 

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

The fictional academic, Robert Langdon, in Dan Browns novels, has an apt saying: "googling isn't research" maybe the same should be said for wiki:biggrin:

 

 

Cerioporus squamosus

 

and: http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=22489&Fields=All

Also confirms what David said.

[Betula]

Thanks,

 

I checked out mycobank last night to find out and saw the same, anyone can change Wikipedia so not too trusting of that!

[Gary Prentice]

Taxonomy and the rules of nomenclature = paracetamol and a lie down

[Betula]

I swear they change the names and come up with synonyms to keep themselves in a job!!