Cyphellostereum

Cyphellostereum is a genus of basidiolichens.[1][2] Species produce white, somewhat cup-shaped fruit bodies on a thin film of green on soil which is the thallus. All Cyphellostereum species have nonamyloid spores and tissues, lack clamp connections, and also lack hymenial cystidia.

Cyphellostereum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Hygrophoraceae
Genus:
Cyphellostereum

D.A.Reid (1965)
Type species
Cyphellostereum pusiolum
(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) D.A.Reid (1965)
Species

C. muscicola
C. pusiolum
C. rivulorum

DNA research has shown that a common, north temperate species formerly known as Cyphellostereum laeve is not related to the type species and belongs in a quite separate order, the Hymenochaetales. It has been renamed Muscinupta laevis.[2]

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).

See also

References
  1. Reid DA (1965). "A monograph of the stipitate stereoid fungi". Beiheifte Nova Hedwigia. 18: 1–382.
  2. Lawrey, JD; Lücking R; Sipman HJM; Chaves JL; Redhead SA; Bungartz F; Sikaroodi M; Gillevet PM (2009). "High concentration of basidiolichens in a single family of agaricoid mushrooms (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae)". Mycological Research. 113 (Pt 10): 1154–1171. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2009.07.016. PMID 19646529.
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