Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes | Division Basidiomycota Order Agaricales Rank Genus | |
Similar Acantholichen, Dictyonema, Muscinupta, Cotylidia, Lepidostromatales | ||
Cyphellostereum mebutizide
Cyphellostereum is a genus of basidiolichens. Species produce white, somewhat cup-shaped fruit bodies on a thin film of green on soil which is the thallus. All Cyphellostereum species have nonamyloid spores and tissues, lack clamp connections, and also lack hymenial cystidia.
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DNA research has shown that a common, north temperate species formerly known as Cyphellostereum laeve is not related to the type species and belongs in a quite separate order, the Hymenochaetales. It has been renamed Muscinupta laevis.
Cyphellostereum laeve fungi kingdom
Etymology
The name Cyphellostereum combines two generic names: Cyphella in reference to the inverted cupulate form (like the genus Cyphella); and Stereum, in reference to the stipitate fan-shape or bracket shape (as in species of Stereum).
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