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Genus: | Muscinupta Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
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Muscinupta laevis (Fr.) Redhead, Lücking & Lawrey (2009)
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Thelephora muscigena Pers. (1801) |
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.[2] The type species is better known under the name Cyphellostereum laeve[3][4] but Cyphellostereum is a basidiolichen.
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.[citation needed]