''Cyphellostereum'' is a

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s. Species produce white, somewhat cup-shaped

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on a thin film of green on soil which is the thallus. All ''Cyphellostereum'' species have

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spores and tissues, lack

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s, and also lack hymenial

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has shown that a common, north

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species formerly known as ''Cyphellostereum laeve'' is not related to the

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and belongs in a quite separate

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, the

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. It has been renamed ''

Muscinupta laevis ''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 ''Cyphelloster ...

''.

Etymology

The name ''Cyphellostereum'' combines two generic names: ''Cyphella'' in reference to the inverted cupulate form (like the genus '' Cyphella''); and ''

Stereum ''Stereum'' is the type genus of the Stereaceae family of fungi, in the Russulales order. Common names for species of this genus include leaf fungus, wax fungus, and shelf fungus. Fungi having a shape similar to a ''Stereum'' are said to have a s ...

'', in reference to the stipitate fan-shape or bracket shape (as in species of ''Stereum'').

Species

*'' Cyphellostereum bicolor'' *'' Cyphellostereum brasiliense'' *'' Cyphellostereum galapagoense'' *'' Cyphellostereum georgianum'' *'' Cyphellostereum imperfectum'' *'' Cyphellostereum indicum'' – India *'' Cyphellostereum jamesianum'' *'' Cyphellostereum muscicola'' *'' Cyphellostereum phyllogenum'' *'' Cyphellostereum rivulorum'' *'' Cyphellostereum unoquinoum'' *'' Cyphellostereum ushimanum'' – Japan

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5200217 Agaricales genera Lichen genera Hygrophoraceae Basidiolichens Taxa described in 1965 Taxa named by Derek Reid

Etymology

Species

See also

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