Muscinupta

Muscinupta

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Thelephora muscigena Pers. (1801)
Auricularia muscigena (Pers.) Mérat (1821)
Cantharellus laevis Fr. (1821)
Thelephora vulgaris Pers. (1822)
Cyphella muscigena (Pers.) Fr. (1838)
Calyptella muscigena (Pers.) Quél. (1886)
Arrhenia muscigena (Pers.) Quél. (1888)
Chaetocypha muscigena (Pers.) Kuntze (1891)
Cyphella laevis (Fr.) S. Lundell (1953)
Leptoglossum laeve (Fr.) W.B.Cooke (1961)
Lachnella muscigena (Pers.) G.Cunn. (1963)
Cyphellostereum laeve (Fr.) D.A.Reid (1965)

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.