Muscinupta is a fungal genus that produces small white delicate fan-shaped to cupulate fruitbodies on mosses. It is monotypic, containing the single species Muscinupta laevis.[2] The type species is better known under the name Cyphellostereum laeve[3][4] but Cyphellostereum is a basidiolichen.
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Genus: | Muscinupta Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
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Muscinupta laevis (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
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Thelephora muscigena Pers. (1801) |
Etymology
editThe name Muscinupta refers to both its moss host and an allusion to the marriage of the fungus with the moss together with its veil-like properties on the moss.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "Muscinupta laevis (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey 2009". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
- ^ Lawrey JD, Lücking R, Sipman HJ, Chaves JL, Redhead SA, Bungartz F, Sikaroodi M, Gillevet PM (2009). "High concentration of basidiolichens in a single family of agaricoid mushrooms (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae)". Mycological Research. 113 (10): 1154–71. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2009.07.016. PMID 19646529.
- ^ Reid, D.A. (1965). "A monograph of the stipitate stereoid fungi". Beih. Nova Hedwigia. 18: 1–382.
- ^ Redhead, S.A. (1984). "Arrhenia and Rimbachia, expanded generic concepts and a reevaluation of Leptoglossum with emphasis on muscicolous North American taxa". Canadian Journal of Botany. 62 (5): 865–892. doi:10.1139/b84-126.