Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Rank Genus | Division Basidiomycota Family Repetobasidiaceae Order Hymenochaetales | |
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Similar Mycopan, Mycena atkinsoniana, Marasmius sullivantii, Mycena overholtsii, Mycena subcaerulea | ||
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. The type species is better known under the name Cyphellostereum laeve but Cyphellostereum is a basidiolichen.
Etymology
The name Muscinupta refers to both its moss host and an allution to the marriage of the fungus with the moss together with its veil-like properties on the moss.
References
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