Muscinupta

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title: "Muscinupta" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["fungi-of-europe", "fungi-of-north-america", "repetobasidiaceae", "monotypic-basidiomycota-genera"] description: "Genus of fungi" topic_path: "general/fungi-of-europe" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscinupta" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of fungi ::

| image = Muscinupta laevis.jpg | image_caption = | status = G3 | status_system = TNC | status_ref = | genus = Muscinupta | parent_authority = Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009) | species = laevis | authority = (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009) | synonyms_ref = | 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. 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.

References

References

1. "''Muscinupta laevis''".
2. Reid, D.A.. (1965). "A monograph of the stipitate stereoid fungi". Beih. Nova Hedwigia.
3. 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.
4. (2009). "High concentration of basidiolichens in a single family of agaricoid mushrooms (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae)". Mycological Research.
5. "''Muscinupta laevis'' (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey 2009". [[MycoBank]]. International Mycological Association.

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