''Muscinupta'' is a fungal

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that produces small white delicate fan-shaped to cupulate fruitbodies on mosses. It is

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, containing the single species ''Muscinupta laevis''. The type species is better known under the name ''Cyphellostereum laeve'' 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

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6940264 Fungi of Europe Fungi of North America Repetobasidiaceae Monotypic Basidiomycota genera