Muscinupta Explained

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[1] [2] but Cyphellostereum is a basidiolichen.

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.

Notes and References

  1. Reid, D.A. . 1965. A monograph of the stipitate stereoid fungi . Beih. Nova Hedwigia. 18. 1–382.
  2. Redhead, S.A. . 1984. Arrhenia and Rimbachia, expanded generic concepts and a reevaluation of Leptoglossum with emphasis on muscicolous North American taxa. Canadian Journal of Botany . 62 . 5 . 865–892 . 10.1139/b84-126.