Metuloidea

M. cinnamomea M. fragrans M. murashkinskyi M. rhinocephala M. tawa

Metuloidea
Metuloidea reniformis
Kingdom:Fungi
Division:Basidiomycota
Class:Agaricomycetes
Order:Polyporales
Family:Steccherinaceae
Genus:MetuloideaG.Cunn. (1965)
Metuloidea tawa(G.Cunn.) G.Cunn. (1965)
M. cinnamomea
M. fragrans
M. murashkinskyi
M. rhinocephala
M. tawa

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Metuloidea is a genus of five species of fungi in the family Steccherinaceae. The genus was circumscribed by New Zealand-based mycologist Gordon Herriot Cunningham in 1965. The type species is M. tawa, a fungus originally described by Cunningham as a species of Trametes. Formerly classified in family Meruliaceae, Metuloidea was moved to the Steccherinaceae in 2016, following prior research that outlined a revised framework for the Steccherinaceae based on molecular phylogenetics.

Metuloidea contains fungi that produce poroid or hydnoid fruit bodies that are brown and have a sweet odour. It features a dimitic hyphal system with branched, relatively wide skeletal hyphae (3–5 μm). The spores are ellipsoid to cylindrical, thin walled, and measure 3–4 by 2–2.8 μm.

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