Muscinupta

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.^[3] The type species is better known under the name Cyphellostereum laeve^[4][5] but Cyphellostereum is a basidiolichen.

Muscinupta
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hymenochaetales
Family:	Repetobasidiaceae
Genus:	Muscinupta Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
Species:	M. laevis
Binomial name
Muscinupta laevis (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
Synonyms[2]
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)

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.^[3]