Muscinupta
Genus of fungi
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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.[3] The type species is better known under the name Cyphellostereum laeve[4][5] but Cyphellostereum is a basidiolichen.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Hymenochaetales |
| Family: | Repetobasidiaceae |
| Genus: | Muscinupta Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009) |
| Species: | M. laevis |
| Binomial name | |
| Muscinupta laevis (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Thelephora muscigena Pers. (1801) | |
Etymology
The 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.[3]