Muscinupta

Muscinupta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hymenochaetales
Family:	Repetobasidiaceae
Genus:	Muscinupta; Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
Type species
	Muscinupta laevis; (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
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. The type species is better known under the name Cyphellostereum laeve but Cyphellostereum is a basidiolichen.

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