''Cyphellostereum'' is a
genus
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of
basidiolichens.
Species produce white, somewhat cup-shaped
fruit bodies
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on a thin film of green on soil which is the thallus. All ''Cyphellostereum'' species have
nonamyloid
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spores and tissues, lack
clamp connections, and also lack hymenial
cystidia.
DNA research
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has shown that a common, north
temperate
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species formerly known as ''Cyphellostereum laeve'' is not related to the
type species
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and belongs in a quite separate
order
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, the
Hymenochaetales
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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
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''.
Etymology
The name ''Cyphellostereum'' combines two generic names: ''Cyphella'' in reference to the inverted cupulate form (like the genus ''
Cyphella''); and ''
Stereum'', 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 jamesianum''
*''
Cyphellostereum muscicola''
*''
Cyphellostereum phyllogenum''
*''
Cyphellostereum rivulorum''
*''
Cyphellostereum unoquinoum''
*''
Cyphellostereum ushimanum''
– Japan
See also
*
List of Agaricales genera
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5200217
Agaricales genera
Lichen genera
Hygrophoraceae
Basidiolichens
Taxa described in 1965
Taxa named by Derek Reid