Stereopsis (fungus)
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| Family: | Stereopsidaceae Sjökvist, E.Larss., Pfeil & K.H.Larss. (2013) |
| Genus: | Stereopsis D.A.Reid (1965) |
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| Stereopsis radicans (Berk.) D.A.Reid (1965) | |
Stereopsis is the sole genus of fungi in the family Stereopsidaceae. The genus was formerly placed in the family Meruliaceae in the order Polyporales but was found to belong in its own order along with the genus Clavulicium. Stereopsis was circumscribed by English mycologist Derek Reid in 1965. It contains species that form funnel-shaped basidiocarps as well as the corticioid species Stereopsis globosa which was formerly considered a species of Clavulicium. The species Baisuzhenia humphreyi had been reclassified from Stereopsis into its own genus Baisuzhenia. Stereopsis vitellina was found to belong in the Atheliales in a molecular phylogenetics study, and because of this does not belong in Stereopsis, but it has not yet been transferred to its own genus.