''Stereopsis'' (fungus)

{{Taxobox | image =Stereopsis humphreyi 56449.jpg | image_width =240px | image_caption =Stereopsis humphreyi | regnum =Fungi | divisio =Basidiomycota | classis =Agaricomycetes | ordo =Stereopsidales | familia =Stereopsidaceae | genus =Stereopsis | genus_authority =D.A.Reid (1965) | type_species =Stereopsis radicans | type_species_authority =(Berk.) D.A.Reid (1965) | subdivision_ranks =Species | subdivision = }} Stereopsis is a genus of fungi in the family Stereopsidaceae.[1] It was formerly placed in the family Meruliaceae in the order Polyporales but was found to belong in its own order along with the genus Clavulicium.[1] The genus was circumscribed by English mycologist Derek Reid in 1965.[2] It contains species that form funnel shaped basidiocarps as well as the corticioid species Stereopsis globosa which was formerly considered a species of Clavulicium.[1] The species Stereopsis humphreyi and Stereopsis vitellina were found to belong in the Agaricales and Atheliales respectively in a molecular phylogenetics study, and because of this do not belong in Stereopsis, but they have not yet been transferred to their own genera.[1]

Species

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Sjökvist E, Pfeil BE, Larsson E, Larsson K-H (2014). "Stereopsidales – a new order of mushroom-forming fungi". PLoS ONE. 9 (8): e106204. PMC 4002437Freely accessible. PMID 24777067. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095227.
  2. Reid DA. (1965). A monograph of the stipitate stereoid fungi. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. 18. p. 290.


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