Synonymy:
Agarico-fungus Paulet, Tab. Plant. Fungos. (Paris) (1791)
Agaricus sect. Pleuropus Pers., Tent. disp. meth. fung. (Lipsiae): 69 (1797)
Agaricus trib. Pleurotus Fr., Systema Mycologicum 1: 178 (1821)
Antromycopsis Pat. & Trab., in Patouillard, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 13: 215 (1897)
Asterotus Singer, Mycologia 35(2): 161 (1943)
Crepidopus Nees ex Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 616 (1821)
Gelona Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 11, 561 (1763)
Lentodiopsis Bubák, Hedwigia 43: 196 (1904)
Marasmius sect. Pleurotopsis Henn., in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Teil. I (Leipzig) 1(1**): 226 (1898) [1900]
Phyllotremella Lloyd, Mycol. Writ. (Cincinnati) 6(Letter 64): 1007 (1920) [1921]
Pleuropus (Pers.) Roussel, Fl. Calvados, Edn 2: 67 (1806)
Pleurotopsis (Henn.) Earle, Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 5: 412 (1909)
Polyporus trib. Pleuropus (Pers.) Fr., Systema Mycologicum 1: 352 (1821)
Pterophyllus Lév., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 2: 178 (1844)
Rhodocyphella W.B. Cooke, Beih. Sydowia 4: 105 (1961)
Scleroma Fr., Epicrisis Systematis Mycologici: 387 (1838) [1836-1838]
Scytinotopsis Singer, Annls mycol. 41(1/3): 157 (1943)
Stigmatolemma Kalchbr., Grevillea 10(no. 55): 104 (1882)
Velolentinus Overeem, Bull. Jard. bot. Buitenz, 3 Sér. 9: 12 (1927)

Position in classification:
Pleurotus, Pleurotaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi

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