Mycorrhaphium stereoides

Mycorrhaphium stereoides is a species of tooth fungus in the family Steccherinaceae. The fungus was first described by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke in 1892 as Hydnum stereoides. The original specimens were collected in Perak, Malaysia, where they were found growing on a tree trunk.^[2] Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus transferred it to the genus Mycorrhaphium in 1971.^[3]

Mycorrhaphium stereoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Steccherinaceae
Genus:	Mycorrhaphium
Species:	M. stereoides
Binomial name
Mycorrhaphium stereoides (Cooke) Maas Geest. (1971)
Synonyms[1]
Hydnum stereoides Cooke (1892) Hydnum insulare Pat. (1914) Mycorrhaphium insulare (Pat.) Maas Geest. (1967)