Metuloidea

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Metuloidea
File:Metuloidea reniformis.jpg
Metuloidea reniformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Steccherinaceae
Genus: Metuloidea
G.Cunn. (1965)
Type species
Metuloidea tawa
(G.Cunn.) G.Cunn. (1965)
Species

M. cinnamomea
M. fragrans
M. murashkinskyi
M. rhinocephala
M. tawa

Metuloidea is a genus of five species of fungi in the family Steccherinaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by New Zealand-based mycologist Gordon Herriot Cunningham in 1965. The type species is M. tawa, a fungus originally described by Cunningham as a species of Trametes.[2] Formerly classified in family Meruliaceae, Metuloidea was moved to the Steccherinaceae in 2016,[3] following prior research that outlined a revised framework for the Steccherinaceae based on molecular phylogenetics.[1]

Description

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Metuloidea contains fungi that produce poroid or hydnoid fruit bodies that are brown and have a sweet odour. It features a dimitic hyphal system with branched, relatively wide skeletal hyphae (3–5 μm). The spores are ellipsoid to cylindrical, thin walled, and measure 3–4 by 2–2.8 μm.[3]

Species

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References

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